ISBN:
9781611475494
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (257 pages)
Series Statement:
The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Communication Studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Macke, Frank J The Experience of Human Communication : Body, Flesh, and Relationship
DDC:
302.2
Keywords:
Interpersonal communication - Philosophy
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Interpersonal communication - Philosophy
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The Experience of Human Communication approaches everyday communication as a philosophical and psychological matter. Using insights from Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, and Foucault, Frank Macke stresses that human communication-and with it, the human body-is, first and foremost, a relational phenomenon involving friends and family
Abstract:
Intro -- Title Page -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Therapy, Vulnerability, and Feeling in the Interstices of Embodied Expression -- The Mirrored Body -- On Contact -- Body, Liquidity, and Flesh -- The Diabolical Parable and the Devil in Speech -- Identity, Intimacy, and Eroticism -- An Archaeology of Gender Symbols and a Theory of Communication -- The Flesh of Human Communicative Embodiment and the Game of Intimacy -- The Dream and the Self -- Conclusion -- References -- Index
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