Walter J. Ong, SJ (1912-2003) was professor at St. Louis University and an internationally renowned scholar of rhetorical theory and history. He is the author of numerous books, including In the Human Grain: Further Explorations of Contemporary Culture and Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word.
"Indispensable for any scholar interested in Ramus and his
influence. But beyond that [it makes] an important contribution to
the continuing attempt to find out where the modern mind came
from." --T. K. Scott Jr. "Journal of Philosophy"
"Ong's elucidation of Ramism as a significant segment of the
history of logic is by far the most complete, most searching, most
convincing that has been written. In particular, his account of the
internal history of Ramist dialectic is an amazing and valuable
piece of scholarship. . . . So fundamental is Father Ong's
achievement, that not only scholars of Ramus and Ramism, but anyone
with the lightest interest in the Renaissance as a whole, and
especially in the histories of science and logic of this period,
should turn, and return, to this work to obtain considerable
enlightenment about a segment of intellectual history that has too
long remained confused and obscure." --John E. Murdoch "Isis"
(12/1/1961 12:00:00 AM)
"This careful book succeeds in correcting and expanding our
knowledge of the thought and works of Ramus through a patient
examination and rigid reconsideration of the source materials, old
and new." -- "French Review" (5/1/1960 12:00:00 AM)
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