person
also known as Edgar Friedenberg
The American sociologist — author of The Vanishing Adolescent, quoted in The Gutenberg Galaxy — who left the U.S. for Dalhousie, where Bob sat in on his classes in the 1970s. In the podcast he recurs mostly through one anecdote about Maurice McLuhan's wit. New to it — start with dialogue 06.
Across the dialogues
06
Enters through the "only child" anecdote — Friedenberg's dismay at Maurice McLuhan's Irish bull
Bob recounts the panel anecdote that cost Marshall some of Friedenberg's regard — Maurice introducing Marshall "as an only child," which Cameron then reframes as an Irish bull, wit mistaken for confusion.
"And Friedenberg told me he was shocked."
Connections
quoted inThe Gutenberg Galaxy
The sociologist, author of The Vanishing Adolescent, was quoted in McLuhan's Gutenberg Galaxy.
taughtBob Dobbs
Friedenberg left the U.S. for Dalhousie, where Bob sat in on his classes from 1973 to 1977.