Walter J. Ong

Walter Jackson Ong, S. J. ( Born November 30, 1912 in Kansas City, Missouri; † August 12, 2003 in St. Louis, Missouri) was an American clergyman ( Catholic), literary scholar and media theorist.

Life

Ong studied literature (Latin ) and in 1933 received his bachelor's degree from Rockhurst College, a master's degree in 1941 at the Jesuit -run from Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri. He later made even more degrees in philosophy and theology. In 1935, he joined the Society of Jesus at ( Jesuits ), 1946 he was ordained a Roman Catholic priest.

He received his Ph.D. in 1955 in Literature (via Peter Ramus ) at Harvard University and taught from 1959 at the Saint Louis University English and French literature and later psychology.

Ong counted since the 50s of the most prominent intellectuals in the United States.

Work

Ong media major theoretical work is Orality and Literacy from 1982; his central thesis here is that the invention of writing did the people not only delivered a technical tool, but the entrance the human ways of thinking into literacy - have fundamentally restructured and sustainable - and the cultural and social patterns associated with it.