Word.ws English Dictionary

McLuhanism

McLuhanism noun: the social ideas of Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980).

Noun

McLuhanism (uncountable)

  1. The social ideas of Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980).
    • A basic primer on McLuhanism is now becoming available free of charge to Peace Corps members. Understanding Media, one of McLuhan’s more popular books, is contained in the new booklockers being distributed around the Peace Corps village.1967 October, Stuart Awbrey, Paul Reed, “The media missionaries”, in Peace Corps Volunteer, volume V, number 12, Washington, D.C.: The Office of Volunteer Support, Peace Corps, page 8
    • Finally, McLuhanism is ambiguous on the post-modern ‘reversal’ in which reality is construed as a textual, symbolic and absent construction rather than the immediate existence and ‘givenness’ to experience that common sense and empiricism assume is foundational, even if open to debate.2005, Christopher Horrocks, “Understanding virtuality – links between McLuhan and narratives of new media”, in Gary Genosko, editor, Marshall McLuhan: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory, volume...

Origin of McLuhanism

From McLuhan + -ism.

Questions about McLuhanism

What does McLuhanism mean?
McLuhanism means the social ideas of Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980).
What part of speech is McLuhanism?
McLuhanism is a noun.

Words near McLuhanism in the dictionary

  1. McLuckie
  2. McLuckies
  3. McLuhan
  4. McLuhanesque
  5. McLuhanian
  6. McLuhanism
  7. McLuhanist
  8. McLuhanists
  9. McLuhanite
  10. McLuhanites
  11. McLuhans

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: McLuhanism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “McLuhanism.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mcluhanism. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.