The University of Chicago president to whom McLuhan first pitched his idea of truth-seeking "centers" around 1946 — the dialogue-clinic proposal (drawn from Giedion) that failed at Chicago and, later, at Toronto. In Cameron and Bob's account Hutchins marks the first refusal of a plan McLuhan kept renewing. New to it — start with dialogue 18 for the proposal named and dated.
Across the dialogues
Enters as the recipient of McLuhan's 1946 proposal — the truth-seeking "centers" (out of Giedion) urged on the University of Chicago president
Cameron reconstructs McLuhan's 1946 pitch to Hutchins — truth-seeking centers (out of Giedion) whose "precipitate" is that people can know and apply truth, against a present that reduces everything to power.
"human beings can know truth and can apply truth."
The proposal named and dated — McLuhan's letter naming Voegelin and Gilson, the plan that failed at Chicago as it later failed at Toronto
Bob dates McLuhan's proposal to Hutchins (~1946) and his 1950s Toronto seminar — dialogue as the fusing of professional perspectives into a collective program.
"bringing together people with expertise and goodwill"
Connections
As University of Chicago president (~1946) Hutchins received McLuhan's proposal for truth-seeking "centers," the plan that failed there.
The "centers" McLuhan urged on Hutchins were "taken right from Giedion."