Speaking into the air: a history of the idea of communication/
Peters, John Durham
Speaking into the air: a history of the idea of communication/ John Durham Peters - Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. - x, 293 p. ; 24 cm.
Introduction : the problem of communication. The historicity of communication --
The varied senses of "communication" --
Sorting theoretical debates in (and via) the 1920s --
Technical and therapeutic discourses after World War II. 1. Dialogue and dissemination. Dialogue and eros in the Phaedrus --
Dissemination in the synoptic gospels. 2. History of an error : the spiritualist tradition. Christian sources --
From matter to mind : "communication" in the seventeenth century --
Nineteenth-century spiritualism. 3. Toward a more robust vision of spirit : Hegel, Marx, and Kierkegaard. Hegel on recognition --
Marx (versus Locke) on money --
Kierkegaard's incognitos. 4. Phantasms of the living, dialogues with the dead. Recording and transmission --
Hermeneutics as communication with the dead --
Dead letters. 5. The quest for authentic connection, or bridging the chasm. The interpersonal walls of idealism --
Fraud or contact? : James on psychical research --
Reach out and touch someone : the telephonic uncanny --
Radio : broadcasting as dissemination (and dialogue). 6. Machines, animals, and aliens : horizons of incommunicability. The Turing test and the insuperability of eros --
Animals and empathy with the inhuman --
Communication with aliens. Conclusion : a squeeze of the hand. The gaps of which communication is made --
The privilege of the receiver --
The dark side of communication --
The irreducibility of touch and time.
9780226662763
Communication--Philosophy
Mass media--Social aspects
Communication--Social aspects
Communication
302.201 / PET/S
Speaking into the air: a history of the idea of communication/ John Durham Peters - Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. - x, 293 p. ; 24 cm.
Introduction : the problem of communication. The historicity of communication --
The varied senses of "communication" --
Sorting theoretical debates in (and via) the 1920s --
Technical and therapeutic discourses after World War II. 1. Dialogue and dissemination. Dialogue and eros in the Phaedrus --
Dissemination in the synoptic gospels. 2. History of an error : the spiritualist tradition. Christian sources --
From matter to mind : "communication" in the seventeenth century --
Nineteenth-century spiritualism. 3. Toward a more robust vision of spirit : Hegel, Marx, and Kierkegaard. Hegel on recognition --
Marx (versus Locke) on money --
Kierkegaard's incognitos. 4. Phantasms of the living, dialogues with the dead. Recording and transmission --
Hermeneutics as communication with the dead --
Dead letters. 5. The quest for authentic connection, or bridging the chasm. The interpersonal walls of idealism --
Fraud or contact? : James on psychical research --
Reach out and touch someone : the telephonic uncanny --
Radio : broadcasting as dissemination (and dialogue). 6. Machines, animals, and aliens : horizons of incommunicability. The Turing test and the insuperability of eros --
Animals and empathy with the inhuman --
Communication with aliens. Conclusion : a squeeze of the hand. The gaps of which communication is made --
The privilege of the receiver --
The dark side of communication --
The irreducibility of touch and time.
9780226662763
Communication--Philosophy
Mass media--Social aspects
Communication--Social aspects
Communication
302.201 / PET/S