A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

This designation of the physical properties of acoustic space concurs with the ancient Neoplatonic notions of God. The Logos idea of the Timaeus, or of the ancient world, East and West, took resonance for granted as the bond of being and the natural liaison between human speech and the entire physical world. It was resonance and the “logistics” of the Word that ensured to humanist studies absolute scientific priority to Greek and Roman alike – to mention only the Western world. It is this idea of unity in all knowledge and being that has suddenly returned to the Western world through such developments as quantum mechanics.
“The Man Who Came to Listen” with Barrington Nevitt, in Peter Drucker (1970), p 35
Year: 1970
Chapter: Organic
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