It is striking how often historical events arrive with their meanings plainly legible. When Napoleon clattered by Hegel’s window in Jena, in October 1806, the philosopher famously perceived in the emperor’s appearance “the soul of the world . . . seated on a horse.” The thought that fit the moment was ready for its occasion. In summer…
David Cayley
David Cayley wrote Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey and The CBC: How Canada’s Public Broadcaster Lost Its Voice (And How to Get It Back).
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The Prophet’s Dark Side
An authoritative new look at the life and works of Harold Innis December 2005
His colleague Vince Bladen called him “a raw Ontario farm boy.” Sociologist S.D. Clark remembered him as “a shy man, awkward of manners [with] little capacity to state abstract ideas coherently.” His writing style, as even his affectionate and admiring biographer Donald Creighton conceded, was “difficult, highly condensed, extremely elliptical and, not infrequently, obscure.” And…