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Embodiment, Relation, Community

Name: Embodiment, Relation, Community
Brand: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9780271083261
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PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9780271083261

A Continental Philosophy of Communication

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By Garnet C. Butchart
Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: March 2, 2020
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In this volume, Garnet C. Butchart shows how human communication can be understood as embodied relations and not merely as a mechanical process of transmission. Expanding on contemporary philosophies of speech and language, self and other, and community and immunity, this book challenges many common assumptions, constructs, and problems of communication theory while offering compelling new resources for future study.

Human communication has long been characterized as a problem of transmitting information, or the outward sharing of inner thought through mediated channels of exchange. Butchart questions that model and the various theories to which it gives rise. Drawing from the work of Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Jacques Lacanthinkers who, along with Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault, have critiqued the modern notion of a rational subjectButchart shows that the subject is shaped by language rather than preformed, and that humans embody, and not just use, the signs and contexts of interaction that form what he calls a communication community.

Accessibly written and engagingly researched, Embodiment, Relation, Community is relevant for researchers and advanced students of communication, cultural studies, translation, and rhetorical studies, especially those who work with a humanistic or interpretive paradigm.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 The Wager of Communication (as Revealed by Psychoanalysis)

2 The Ban of Language and Law of Communication

3 Of Communication and-as Immunization

4 Body as Index

5 What Remains to Be Thought: Community, or Being-With

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

“This exciting book brings philosophy of communication up to speed with cutting-edge debates in contemporary continental philosophy. Traditional questions of community, body, dialogue, and human contact receive here new and urgent meanings. Butchart’s work is an important contribution to the understanding of communication as an embodied and at the same time collectively shared existential concern.”

—Amit Pinchevski, author of By Way of Interruption: Levinas and the Ethics of Communication

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