Experiences Between Philosophy and Communication : Engaging the Philosophical Contributions of Calvin O. Schrag

by Ramsey, Ramsey E.; Miller, David James

• ISBN13: 9780791458754
• ISBN10: 079145875X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

"Providing developments and advancements concerning the thought of Calvin O. Schrag, this book includes the first full-length interview with the American continental philosopher and covers his long and illustrative philosophical contribution to thinking about the consequences of communication. The influence of Schrag's work is significant and broad, and these nine thought-provoking pieces by leading scholars whose work has been influenced by his philosophy presents the best contemporary thought on communicative praxis. Encompassing questions of democracy, the public and private spheres, and relations inside organizational structures, to questions of giving and ethics, rhetoric and narrative, suffering and love, this is a wellspring of insight and provocation for both those already familiar with Schrag's work and those seeking a keen invitation to his many critical reflections."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Introduction: In-between Philosophy and Communication Studies	vii
Ramsey Eric Ramsey
Part I. Conversation as Invitation to Dialogue
1. From the Loving Struggle to the Struggle to Love: A Conversation with Calvin O. Schrag	3	(52)
Ramsey Eric Ramsey and David James Miller
Part II. Publics and Their Problems
2. Communicative Praxis and Collective Decision Making: From Phenomenology to the Politics of Experience to Dialogic Constitutive Practices	55	(18)
Stanley Deetz, Amy Grim, and Alexander Lyon
3. Limitations of the Public Sphere: The Repressive Voice of Modernity	73	(16)
Raymie McKerrow
4. Transversing Dualisms and Situating the Embodied Self in Organizational Theory and Practice	89	(20)
Majia Holmer Nadesan
Part III. On Giving and Suffering
5. The Gift of Acknowledgment	109	(16)
Michael J. Hyde
6. Awaiting the Year of the Donkey	125	(8)
Stephen Pluhácek
7. On Hearing the Call: From the Pain of Affliction toward Healing	133	(20)
David James Miller and Michael J. Millington
Part IV. Philosophizing the In-between
8. Feminism after Postmodernity: Some Places of Narrative in Communicative Praxis	153	(16)
Dennis K. Mumby
9. Epistemology, Tropology, Hermeneutics, and the "Essence of Language"	169	(22)
Lenore Langsdorf
10. Procreation in a Beautiful Medium: Eroticizing the Vectors of Communicative Praxis	191	(10)
Ramsey Eric Ramsey
Selected Publications by Calvin O. Schrag	201	(6)
Contributors	207	(4)
Index	211