Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue
Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue

Author: Walter J. Ong

Publisher:

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13:

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Renaissance logician, philosopher, humanist, and teacher, Peter Ramus (1515-72) is best known for his attack on Aristotelian logic, his radical pedagogical theories, and his new interpretation for the canon of rhetoric. His work, published in Latin and translated into many languages, has influenced the study of Renaissance literature, rhetoric, education, logic, and--more recently--media studies. Considered the most important work of Walter Ong's career, Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue is an elegant review of the history of Ramist scholarship and Ramus's quarrels with Aristotle. A key influence on Marshall McLuhan, with whom Ong enjoys the status of honorary guru among technophiles, this challenging study remains the most detailed account of Ramus's method ever published. Out of print for more than a decade, this book--with a new foreword by Adrian Johns--is a canonical text for enthusiasts of media, Renaissance literature, and intellectual history.

Ramus, Pedagogy and the Liberal Arts
Ramus, Pedagogy and the Liberal Arts

Author: Dr Steven J Reid

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2013-07-28

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1409482502

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Most early modern scholars know that Petrus Ramus (1515-1572) is important, but may be rather vague as to where his importance lies. This new collection of essays analyses the impact of the logician, rhetorician and pedagogical innovator across a variety of countries and intellectual disciplines, reappraising Ramus in the light of scholarly developments in the fifty years since the publication of Walter Ong's seminal work Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue. Chapters reflect the broad impact of Ramus and the Ramist 'method' of teaching across many subjects, including logic and rhetoric, pedagogy, mathematics, philosophy, and new scientific and taxonomic developments in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. There is no current work that offers such a broad survey of Ramus and Ramism, or that looks at him in such an interdisciplinary fashion. Ramus' influence extended across many disciplines and this book skillfully weaves together studies in intellectual history, pedagogy, literature, philosophy and the history of science. It will prove a useful starting point for those interested in Ramus and his impact, as well as serving to redefine the field of Ramist studies for future scholars.

Ramism and the Reformation of Method
Ramism and the Reformation of Method

Author: Simon J. G. Burton

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 0197516351

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Ramism and the Reformation of Method explores the popular early modern movement of Ramism and its ambitious attempt to transform Church and society. It considers the relation of Ramism to Reformed Christianity and its development as a divine logic attuned to understanding both Scripture and the world. In doing so, it reveals how Ramists rejected the notion of a philosophy or worldview independent of God and sought to encompass everything under an overarching Christian philosophy indebted to Franciscan ideals. The supreme goal of the Ramists was the remaking of the world in the image of the Triune God.

The Barbarian Within
The Barbarian Within

Author: Walter J. Ong

Publisher: New York, Macmillan

Published: 1962

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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Essays are critical explorations of literature, contemporary culture, and religion by a Jesuit priest.

Gorgias and Rhetoric
Gorgias and Rhetoric

Author: Plato

Publisher: Hackett Publishing

Published: 2012-04-09

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 158510468X

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By pairing translations of Gorgias and Rhetoric, along with an outstanding introductory essay, Joe Sachs demonstrates Aristotles response to Plato. If in the Gorgias Plato probes the question of what is problematic in rhetoric, in Rhetoric, Aristotle continues the thread by looking at what makes rhetoric useful. By juxtaposing the two texts, an interesting "conversation" is illuminated—one which students of philosophy and rhetoric will find key in their analytical pursuits. Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Aristotle and Plato’s immediate audience.

Ramus
Ramus

Author: Walter Jackson Ong (Jr.)

Publisher:

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13:

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The Presence of the Word
The Presence of the Word

Author: Walter J. Ong

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1967-01-01

Total Pages: 828

ISBN-13: 9780300099737

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This provocative exploration of the nature and history of the word in some of its social, psychological, literary, phenomenological, and religious dimensions argues that the word is initially aural and in the last analysis always remains sound; it cannot be reduced to any other category. Father Ong contends that sound is essentially an event manifesting power and personal presence, and his descriptive analysis of the development of the media of verbal expression, from their oral sources through the laborious transfer to the visual world and then to contemporary means of electronic communication, shows that the predicament of the human word is the predicament of man himself. Examining the close alliance of the spoken word with the sense of the sacred, particularly in the Hebreo-Christian tradition, he reveals that in a world where presence has penetrated time and space as never before, modern man must find the God who has given himself in the Word which brings man more into the world of sound than of sight.

Language, Culture, and Identity
Language, Culture, and Identity

Author: Sara van den

Publisher: Hampton Press (NJ)

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781572739673

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In 2005, scholars gathered for a conference at Saint Louis University to honour the memory of Walter J. Ong, S.J., whose work had a major impact on the study of language in many different disciplines. This book gathers together contributions from that conference and offers significant reflections on psychoanalysis, biomedical ethics, children's literacy, Biblical studies, and electronic textuality, among others.

Learning, Creating, and Using Knowledge
Learning, Creating, and Using Knowledge

Author: Joseph D. Novak

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-02-02

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1135184461

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This fully revised and updated edition of Learning, Creating, and Using Knowledge recognizes that the future of economic well being in today's knowledge and information society rests upon the effectiveness of schools and corporations to empower their people to be more effective learners and knowledge creators. Novak’s pioneering theory of education presented in the first edition remains viable and useful. This new edition updates his theory for meaningful learning and autonomous knowledge building along with tools to make it operational ─ that is, concept maps, created with the use of CMapTools and the V diagram. The theory is easy to put into practice, since it includes resources to facilitate the process, especially concept maps, now optimised by CMapTools software. CMapTools software is highly intuitive and easy to use. People who have until now been reluctant to use the new technologies in their professional lives are will find this book particularly helpful. Learning, Creating, and Using Knowledge is essential reading for educators at all levels and corporate managers who seek to enhance worker productivity.