Who is the writer who you most disagree with who you've learned the most from? For me: Hugh Kenner and F.A. Hayek.
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Replying to @DavidDark
Briefly, some of the writers Kenner dismissed (Woolf, Nabokov) were as good or better than his canonical writers (Pound, Wyndham Lewis). More broadly, he offered technological explanations at the expense of social/political ones.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
*nods* I see that. I've lately found that Daniel Berrigan and Sister Corita Kent seem to have picked up some of the social/political slack left unattended by the likes Kenner and McLuhan.
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Replying to @DavidDark
There's definitely a conversation within Catholicism here. I talk about it in an upcoming piece.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @DavidDark
I asked the late Eric McLuhan whether there had been any correspondence between Marshall McLuhan and Thomas Merton or the Berrigan Brothers or the Maryknoll Catholics. He said he couldn't recall seeing any.
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Replying to @CharlieHuisken @DavidDark
McLuhan was on an opposite end of the Catholic spectrum (the Chestertonian, conservative side).
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Replying to @HeerJeet @CharlieHuisken
*nods* If you want to divide people up that way. That's why I've been so pleased to find him in interaction with Corita Kent. The lines dissolve (It seems to me) when one beholds someone like her or Berrigan or Dorothy Day or Denise Levertov.
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it's true the Chesteronian tradition transcends the North American left/right spectrum. It's at the roots of McLuhan's interest (shared by Kenner) in ecology.
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