PHILOSOPHER

Marshall McLuhan

1911 - 1980

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Herbert Marshall McLuhan (, mə-KLOO-ən; July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory. He studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridge. He began his teaching career as a professor of English at several universities in the United States and Canada before moving to the University of Toronto in 1946, where he remained for the rest of his life. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marshall McLuhan has received more than 4,350,323 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Marshall McLuhan is the 202nd most popular philosopher (down from 166th in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Canada (down from 12th in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Philosopher.

Marshall McLuhan was a media theorist who was most famous for his idea that the medium is the message. He believed that the content of a medium is not as important as the medium itself.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Marshall McLuhan ranks 202 out of 1,267. Before him are Solomon ibn Gabirol, Melissus of Samos, Muhammad Abduh, Adam Weishaupt, John Scotus Eriugena, and Hasan al-Basri. After him are Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, Paulo Freire, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Jean-François Lyotard, Bias of Priene, and Georgi Plekhanov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Marshall McLuhan ranks 16. Before him are Võ Nguyên Giáp, Todor Zhivkov, William Golding, Nino Rota, Czesław Miłosz, and Mikhail Botvinnik. After him are Jack Ruby, Melvin Calvin, Lê Đức Thọ, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Robert Johnson, and Tennessee Williams. Among people deceased in 1980, Marshall McLuhan ranks 18. Before him are Steve McQueen, Jesse Owens, Colonel Sanders, Joe Dassin, Henry Miller, and Tamara de Lempicka. After him are Gianni Rodari, Peter Sellers, Vladimir Vysotsky, Alexei Kosygin, Otto Frank, and Hans Asperger.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Marshall McLuhan ranks 14 out of 1,622. Before him are Donald Sutherland (1935), Frank Gehry (1929), Erving Goffman (1922), Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874), Alice Munro (1931), and Christopher Plummer (1929). After him are Margaret Atwood (1939), David Cronenberg (1943), James Naismith (1861), Glenn Gould (1932), Eric Berne (1910), and Willard Boyle (1924).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Canada

Among philosophers born in Canada, Marshall McLuhan ranks 1. After him are Charles Taylor (1931), Ian Stevenson (1918), Ian Hacking (1936), Northrop Frye (1912), Patricia Churchland (1943), G. A. Cohen (1941), Bernard Lonergan (1904), Will Kymlicka (1962), Leonard Peikoff (1933), and Paul Churchland (1942).

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