WISDOM WEAVERS
A new book about the two highly perceptive thinkers, Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan, who first alerted us to the extraordinary, often hidden impact that each communication medium has had upon history, our lives, and our 'global village'.
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WISDOM WEAVEERS
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PRAISE FOR WISDOM WEAVERS
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"Wisdom Weavers offers a new and needed reconfiguration of the work of Marshall McLuhan and Harold Innis. Tom Cooper delivers on his promise to show how McLuhan and Innis, separately and differently, but more or less in concert, built a foundation for the study of media that emphasizes the interplay of technology and culture. This book is an important chapter in the history of communication theory."
Theodore L. Glasser
Emeritus Professor of Communication, Stanford University
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"In his revealing biographical study of these two lighthouses of genius who were committed to the greater, Cooper describes with exquisite insight a field of resonance and expanded awareness to which both thinkers dedicated their lives."
T.C. McLuhan
Author, Scholar, Filmmaker, Daughter of Marshall McLuhan. Former Visiting Scholar at Columbia University
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"Tolle Lege -- though rarely apropos since Augustine -- this literary masterpiece meets the criteria. From priceless on-site knowledge and stunning intellectual depth, Cooper's scholarship on these intellectual giants will never be surpassed. His multidisciplinary research transforms hermeneutics with its phosphorescence and gravitas."
Clifford Christians
Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois-Urbana
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"Tom has done a wonderful job in capturing my father's insight and collaboration with such an esteemed intellect as Marshall McLuhan. Tom's writing style seamlessly weaves the interconnectivity of these two brilliant scholars and the ideas and concepts that they developed. I know my father would be more than pleased."
Anne Innis Dagg,
Harold Innis's daughter. Zoologist, Author, Feminist, Order of Canada recipient
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"This is a book about two giants of thought written by an expert in thinking, painstakingly exploring and revealing the global networks and relationships these thoughts have generated. Reading it, you can see how a future is born."
Derrick de Kerckhove,
Former Director, The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, Author with Stefano Calzati, The Quantum Ecology, MIT Press, 2024
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"Tom Cooper intently sharpens the giant double star of the Toronto School—Innis and McLuhan—highlighting their genius and magnifying the lasting legacy of a school of thought that redefined the lens through which we view media and society."
Paolo Granata
Professor, University of Toronto, Author, Introduction to Media Ecology
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"Beautifully written and finely grained exploration of the intersecting thought and lives of an iconic dyad of Canadian intellectuals."
William J. Buxton
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Concordia University
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"To understand the 21st century, no thought is as foundational as that of the Toronto School of H.A. Innis and Marshall McLuhan. To understand Innis and McLuhan and their Toronto School holistically, no book will prove as foundational as Thomas Cooper’s Wisdom Weavers."
William Kuhns,
Author, The Post-Industrial Prophets
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"As our fast-paced world becomes ever more dangerous, the wisdom of Marshall McLuhan and Harold Innis becomes ever more needed, and in need of in-depth explication. Thank goodness Tom Cooper has written just such a wonderful book."
Dr. Paul Levinson
Professor, Fordham University, Author, Digital McLuhan and McLuhan in an Age of Social Media
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"Finally, a book has been crafted to explore the relationship that Innis and McLuhan had. Having worked closely with Marshall in the seventies, Cooper is uniquely positioned to speak authoritatively to the relationship between the two men."
Michael McLuhan
Executor for the Estate of Marshall McLuhan, Son of Marshall McLuhan
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"Those things that extend human attributes and influence spatial and temporal tendencies are the quantum of McLuhan and Innis. Cooper masterfully reminds us of the combined insight, wit and prescience of these Toronto School intellectual whistle blowers who take us where the hand of man has never set foot."
Dr. David Nostbakken
President, CEO, The McLuhan Foundation
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"Although, like Tom, I worked with Marshall, I must say I learned so much from reading his book. A true masterpiece!"
Dr. Bob Logan
Professor Emeritus and Fellow, University of Toronto, Co-Author with Marshall McLuhan
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"I'd long thought that Innis' prescient writings had a powerful but limited effect on McLuhan's sensibility. Tom's book shows how decisive that influence was, and I'm grateful to see clearly now because of his close, attentive, patient, vivid and eloquent weaving of these two audacious, hyper-aware sensibilities."
B.W. Powe
Poet, Essayist, Author of Mysteria, The Charge in the Global Membrane and Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye, Apocalypse and Alchemy.
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