Eric A. Havelock
Eric A. Havelock ( born June 3, 1903 in London, † April 4, 1988 ) was a Canadian classical scholar and media theorist.
Life
Havelock completed his studies in classical philology in 1929 in Cambridge, MA as and from 1963 was professor at Yale University, where he remained until his retirement in 1971.
Work
Eric A. Havelock is attributed to the environment of so-called " Canadian media theory " in the tradition of Harold A. Innis and Marshall McLuhan.
Havelock wrote with Preface to Plato ( 1963) an early historical genealogy of the phonetic alphabet that changed the point of view of Greek culture under the aspect of the communication history fundamentally.
In his second major work, The Muse Learns to Write (1986 ), he attacked the approaches from the Preface to again and worked the studies on the Greek font revolution continues.
His work influenced among other things, research by Walter J. Ong on Orality and Literacy.