Perspective on Philosophy of Communication provides readers with an appreciation of philosophy of communication as central to understanding and guiding communicative action in a postmodern culture. Each chapter provides readers with an understanding of the perspective of a well-recognized philosopher(s) and addresses how his/her work creatively informs current problems and issues in human communication. This work provides an opportunity for readers to engage the interpretive, creative, and ultimately pragmatic spirit of selected philosophers who open the possibilities of communicative content in different ways.
Introduction
Philosophy of Communication: Entering the Conversation, by Pat Arneson
Martin Heidegger
Searching for Perfection: Martin Heidegger (with Some Help from Kenneth Burke) on Language, Truth, and the Practice of Rhetoric, by Michael J. Hyde
Bibliography of Works by Martin Heidegger
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Callicles’ Parlor: Revisiting the Gorgias after Dwelling with Gadamer, by Lenore Langsdorf
Bibliography of Works by Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt: Dialectical Communicative Labor, by Ronald C. Arnett
Bibliography of Works by Hannah Arendt
Jürgen Habermas
The Engagements of Communication: Jürgen Habermas on Discourse, Critical Reason, and Controversy, by G. Thomas Goodnight
Bibliography of Works by Jürgen Habermas
Emmanuel Levinas
Ethical Selfhood: Emmanuel Levinas’s Contribution to a Philosophy of Communication, by Bettina Bergo
Bibliography of Works by Emmanuel Levinas
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Communicative Practice, Algis Mickunas
Bibliography of Works by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Roman Jakobson, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Michel Foucault
Communicology: The French Tradition in Human Science, by Richard L. Lanigan
Bibliography of Works by Roman Jakobson
Bibliography of Works by Michel Foucault
Jean Gebser
Jean Gebser’s Cosmology: Poetic Openings and Dialogic Possibilities, by Pat Arneson
Bibliography of Works by Jean Gebser
José Ortega y Gasset
There Is Nothing Outside Circumstance: Near, Against, With(in)Ortega y Gasset (and a Ghostly Hand), by Ramsey Eric Ramsey, with “A Ghostly Hand” compiled and arranged by J. N. Sturgess and Ramsey Eric Ramsey
Bibliography of Works by José Ortega y Gasset
Mikhail Bakhtin
Mikhail Bakhtin: The Philosophy of Dialogism, by Leslie A. Baxter
Bibliography of Works by Mikhail Bakhtin
Index
Contributors
Pat Arneson is an Associate Professor in the Department Communication & Rhetorical Studies at Duquesne University where she serves as a doctoral faculty member, Director of the Communication Ethics Center, and Director of the M.A. Program. Her research interests include organizational communication, interpretive approaches to scholarship, interpersonal communication ethics, and educational assessment. She is a co-author of Dialogic Civility in a Cynical Age, has published over 25 essays in academic journals and scholarly books, and is the recipient of multiple outstanding educator awards.
