The Mind and the Moon: My Brother’s Story, the Science of Our Brains, and the Search for Our Psyches by Daniel Bergner

Abstract

: I begin my wide-ranging review by highlighting the mature work from the early 1950s onward of the American Jesuit cultural historian and media ecology theorist Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955). Then I highlight the American journalist Daniel Bergner’s new 2022 book The Mind and the Moon: My Brother’s Story, the Science of Our Brains