Cultural Influence
McKeon was cited extensively in Marshall McLuhan's 1943 doctoral dissertation The Place of Thomas Nashe in the Learning of His Time (since published as McLuhan, Marshall (2006). The Classical Trivium. Corte Madera: Gingko Press. ISBN 1-58423-067-3. ).
In Robert Pirsig's 1974 novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, he is the "Chairman of the Committee".
Philosopher Marjorie Grene, writing in her "Philosophical Autobiography" about the 1944 termination of her seven year teaching role at the University of Chicago, stated bluntly (without elaborating) that "McKeon had me fired."
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