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Marshall McLuhan

1911 - 1980

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Herbert Marshall McLuhan (, mə-KLOO-ən; July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory. Raised in Winnipeg, McLuhan studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridge. He began his teaching career as a professor of English at several universities in the United States and Canada before moving to the University of Toronto in 1946, where he remained for the rest of his life. He is known as the "father of media studies". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marshall McLuhan is the 233rd most popular philosopher (down from 202nd in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Canada (down from 14th in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Philosopher.

Marshall McLuhan was a media theorist who was most famous for his idea that the medium is the message. He believed that the content of a medium is not as important as the medium itself.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Marshall McLuhan ranks 233 out of 1,267. Before him are Ernst Bloch, Gaston Bachelard, Benedetto Croce, Al-Ash'ari, Iamblichus, and Carneades. After him are Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Paul Feyerabend, Nikolai Berdyaev, Giorgio Agamben, Michael Psellos, and Prodicus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Marshall McLuhan ranks 27. Before him are Babe Didrikson Zaharias, William Stuart-Houston, Melvin Calvin, Maurice Allais, Jack Ruby, and Polykarp Kusch. After him are Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Tennessee Williams, William Alfred Fowler, Niels Kaj Jerne, Feodor Lynen, and Robert Johnson. Among people deceased in 1980, Marshall McLuhan ranks 23. Before him are Alexei Kosygin, William Howard Stein, Gianni Rodari, Vladimir Vysotsky, Tamara de Lempicka, and Romain Gary. After him are Marcelo Caetano, Peter Sellers, Alexander Oparin, Otto Frank, Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, and William Tolbert.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Marshall McLuhan ranks 23 out of 1,622. Before him are Erving Goffman (1922), Jack L. Warner (1892), Gilles Villeneuve (1950), Glenn Gould (1932), Margaret Atwood (1939), and Saul Bellow (1915). After him are Richard E. Taylor (1929), David Cronenberg (1943), Alice Munro (1931), Pierre Trudeau (1919), Bertram Brockhouse (1918), and Ralph M. Steinman (1943).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Canada

Among philosophers born in Canada, Marshall McLuhan ranks 1. After him are Charles Taylor (1931), G. A. Cohen (1941), Ian Stevenson (1918), Ian Hacking (1936), Patricia Churchland (1943), Northrop Frye (1912), Bernard Lonergan (1904), Paul Churchland (1942), Will Kymlicka (1962), and Leonard Peikoff (1933).

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