ISBN:
9781433116469
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (532 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Philosophical Profiles in the Theory of Communication : With a Foreword by Richard J. Bernstein and an Afterword by John Durham Peters
DDC:
302.201
Keywords:
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Philosophical Profiles in the Theory of Communication is the first book to draw systematic attention to the theme of communication in twentieth-century academic philosophy. It covers a broad range of philosophical perspectives on communication, including those from analytic philosophy, pragmatism, critical theory, phenomenology, hermeneutics, feminism, psychoanalysis, systems theory, and more. What emerges is a vital, long-neglected story about the theme of communication in late modern academic philosophy. Each chapter features a profile of a particular philosophical figure, with a brief intel
Description / Table of Contents:
Table of Contents; Acknowledgements vii; Foreword ixRICHARD J. BERNSTEIN; Introduction JASON HANNAN 1; 1 Hannah Arendt: Public Action, Sociality, and Permanence in the World STUART POYNTZ 9; 2 Seyla Benhabib: Foundations for Critical Communication Theory and Praxis ANDREW R. SMITH 35; 3 Richard J. Bernstein: Engaged Pluralist and Dialogical Exemplar VINCENT COLAPIETRO 65; 4 Robert Brandom: Inference and Meaning KEVIN SCHARP 99; 5 Martin Buber: Bearing Witness to an Experience ROB ANDERSON AND KENNETH N. CISSNA 127
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6 Ernst Cassirer: Communication, Rhetoric, and Symbolic Form THOMAS A. DISCENNA 1597 Donald Davidson: The Interpretational Constitution of Meaning ELI DRESNER 181; 8 Gilles Deleuze: Communicating Sense ALEXANDER KOZIN 197; 9 Daniel C. Dennett: Communication, Evolution, and Self DAVID L. THOMPSON 219; 10 Hans-Georg Gadamer: Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Interplay of Understanding and Meaning RONALD C. ARNETT 235; 11 Sandra Harding: The Less False Accounts of Feminist Standpoint Epistemology LINDA STEINER 261; 12 William James: Among the Machines CHRIS RUSSILL 291
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13 Jacques Lacan: Psychoanalysis With(in) Communication CHRISTIAN LUNDBERG 32514 Emmanuel Levinas: Contact and Interruption AMIT PINCHEVSKI 343; 15 Niklas Luhmann: Society as a System of Communication HANS-GEORG MOELLER 367; 16 Alasdair MacIntyre: Tradition and Disagreement JASON HANNAN 385; 17 Charles S. Peirce: Signs of Inquiry MATS BERGMAN 409; 18 Paul Ricoeur: A Philosophy of Communicative Praxis FADOUA LOUDIY 437; 19 Ludwig Wittgenstein: From Language to Forms of Life WILLIAM KEITH 463; Afterword: Doctors of Philosophy JOHN DURHAM PETERS 499; Contributors 511; Index 515;
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