Philosophy of communication / edited by Briankle G. Chang and Garnet C. Butchart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chang, Briankle G., editor.

Butchart, Garnet, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 674 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

To philosophize is to communicate philosophically. From its inception, philosophy has communicated forcefully. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle talk a lot, and talk ardently. Because philosophy and communication have belonged together from the beginning--and because philosophy comes into its own and solidifies its stance through communication--it is logical that we subject communication to philosophical investigation. This collection of key works of classical, modern, and contemporary philosophers brings communication back into philosophy's orbit. It is the first anthology to gather in a single volume foundational works that address the core questions, concepts, and problems of communication in philosophical terms. The editors have chosen thirty-two selections from the work of Plato, Leibniz, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Lacan, Derrida, Sloterdijk, and others. They have organized these texts thematically, rather than historically, in seven sections: consciousness; intersubjective understanding; language; writing and context; difference and subjectivity; gift and exchange; and communicability and community. Taken together, these texts not only lay the foundation for establishing communication as a distinct philosophical topic but also provide an outline of what philosophy of communication might look like.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Publisher Credits

Introduction

Overture

Chapter 1. Of " This " Communication

Part I Openings

Chapter 2. Phaedrus

Chapter 3. New System of the Nature of the Communication of Substances

Chapter 4. Sense Certainty: Or the "This " and "Meaning"

Chatper 5. The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking

Chapter 6. The Conditions of the Question: What Is Philosophy?

Part II Architecture of Intersubjectivity

Chapter 7. Fifth Meditation: Uncovering of the Sphere of Transcendental Being as Monadological Intersubjectivity

Chapter 8. Being-in-the-World as Being-With and Being-One'ss-Self. The " They "

Chapter 9. Foundations of a Theory of Intersubjective Understanding

Chapter 10. Platonic Dialogue

Part III Language before Communication

Chapter 11. On Language as Such and on the Language of Man

Chapter 12. Building Dwelling Thinking

Chapter 13. The A Priori Foundation of Communication and the Foundation of the Humanities

Chapter 14. The Subject and Power

Chapter 15. An Eye at the Edge of Discourse

Part IV Writing, Meaning, Context

Chapter 16. Philosophical Investigations

Chapter 17. Premises

Chapter 18. Signature Event Context

Chapter 19. Eighth Series of Structure | Twenty-Fourth Series of the Communication of Events | Twenty-Sixth Series of Language

Part V Difference, Subject, and Other

Chapter 20. Ethics as First Philosophy

Chapter 21. Subjectivity in Language

Chapter 22. Formula of Communication

Chapter 23. The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious, or Reason since Freud

Chapter 24. Differance

Part VI Exchange, Gift, Communication

Chapter 25. The Fetishism of the Commodity and Its Secret | The Process of Exchange

Chapter 26. The Reason of the Gift.

Chapter 27. The Madness of Economic Reason: A Gift without Present

Chapter 28. Something Like: "Communication ...without Communication"

Part VII Community and Incommunicability

Chapter 29. Of Being Singular Plural

Chapter 30. The Paradox of Sovereignty | Form of Law | The Ban and the Wolf

Chapter 31. Becoming-Media: Galileo's Telescope

32 Actio in Distans : On Forms of Telerational World-Making

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (page 648) and index.

ISBN:

0-262-30539-9

OCLC:

1024235613