Counter Tradition

                    Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault… North American intellectuals, typified by McLuhan, Fiedler and Brown, achieved a new fusion of ideas—a sensory pragmatism or engagement with concrete experience, rooted in the body, and at the same time a visionary celebration of artistic metaspace–that is, the fictive realm of art, fantasy and belief projected by great poetry and prefiguring our own cyberspace. 

Camille Paglia 
“The North American intellectual tradition”
Salon, 2000