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

by Ramsey, Ramsey E.; Miller, David James

• ISBN13: 9780791458761
• ISBN10: 0791458768
• Format: Paperback
• 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	p. vii
Conversation as Invitation to Dialogue
From the Loving Struggle to the Struggle to Love: A Conversation with Calvin O. Schrag	p. 3
Publics and Their Problems
Communicative Praxis and Collective Decision Making: From Phenomenology to the Politics of Experience to Dialogic Constitutive Practices	p. 55
Limitations of the Public Sphere: The Repressive Voice of Modernity	p. 73
Transversing Dualisms and Situating the Embodied Self in Organizational Theory and Practice	p. 89
On Giving and Suffering
The Gift of Acknowledgment	p. 109
Awaiting the Year of the Donkey	p. 125
On Hearing the Call: From the Pain of Affliction toward Healing	p. 133
Philosophizing the In-between
Feminism after Postmodernity: Some Places of Narrative in Communicative Praxis	p. 153
Epistemology, Tropology, Hermeneutics, and the "Essence of Language"	p. 169
Procreation in a Beautiful Medium: Eroticizing the Vectors of Communicative Praxis	p. 191
Selected Publications	p. 201
Contributors	p. 207
Index	p. 211
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