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Author:   Garnet C. Butchart (Duquesne University)
Publisher:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Imprint:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 22.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780271083254

ISBN 10:   0271083255
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   08 January 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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This is a wonderful book. Drawing upon thinkers such as Jean-Luc Nancy, Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito, and others, Garnet Butchart reflects on communication and communicates his reflection in a most honest and graceful manner. As we read this text, our experiences of communication, of being in common with others, are brought back to their very foundation. --Briankle G. Chang, author of Deconstructing Communication: Representation, Subject, and Economies of Exchange Embodiment, Relation, Community succeeds in enlivening the philosophy of communication by inventively crossing traditions and squarely facing the uncertainties of communication. The book's three major strengths are its nuanced interrogation of the imperative to communicate, fluid demonstration of the relation between immunization and communication, and trenchant analysis of the ontologically communicative body. --Gary Genosko, author of Remodeling Communication: From WWII to the WWW 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 Unlike work that has been published in cultural studies, Butchart's study is not 'post-phenomenology' or in any way antagonistic to the tradition of thought that preceded it. It is, simply, the future of the field. It carefully explores some of the most important thematic and problematic concerns in the philosophy of human communication. --Frank J. Macke, author of The Experience of Human Communication: Body, Flesh, and Relationship Garnet C. Butchart convincingly shows that we are always in communication and that one of its primary operative functions is immunization, a concept Butchart borrows from Roberto Esposito. Communication, paradoxically, is what restricts and enables, what is both threat and defense, exposure and shoring up, contamination and protection. An indispensable book for those wanting to understand the contribution of contemporary continental philosophy to our understanding of the communicative constitution of reality. --Fran ois Cooren, author of Action and Agency in Dialogue: Passion, Incarnation, and Ventriloquism

This is a wonderful book. Drawing upon thinkers such as Jean-Luc Nancy, Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito, and others, Garnet Butchart reflects on communication and communicates his reflection in a most honest and graceful manner. As we read this text, our experiences of communication, of being in common with others, are brought back to their very foundation. --Briankle G. Chang, author of Deconstructing Communication: Representation, Subject, and Economies of Exchange 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 Embodiment, Relation, Community succeeds in enlivening the philosophy of communication by inventively crossing traditions and squarely facing the uncertainties of communication. The book's three major strengths are its nuanced interrogation of the imperative to communicate, fluid demonstration of the relation between immunization and communication, and trenchant analysis of the ontologically communicative body. --Gary Genosko, author of Remodeling Communication: From WWII to the WWW Unlike work that has been published in cultural studies, Butchart's study is not 'post-phenomenology' or in any way antagonistic to the tradition of thought that preceded it. It is, simply, the future of the field. It carefully explores some of the most important thematic and problematic concerns in the philosophy of human communication. --Frank J. Macke, author of The Experience of Human Communication: Body, Flesh, and Relationship Garnet C. Butchart convincingly shows that we are always in communication and that one of its primary operative functions is immunization, a concept Butchart borrows from Roberto Esposito. Communication, paradoxically, is what restricts and enables, what is both threat and defense, exposure and shoring up, contamination and protection. An indispensable book for those wanting to understand the contribution of contemporary continental philosophy to our understanding of the communicative constitution of reality. --Fran ois Cooren, author of Action and Agency in Dialogue: Passion, Incarnation, and Ventriloquism

Garnet C. Butchart convincingly shows that we are always in communication and that one of its primary operative functions is immunization, a concept Butchart borrows from Roberto Esposito. Communication, paradoxically, is what restricts and enables, what is both threat and defense, exposure and shoring up, contamination and protection. An indispensable book for those wanting to understand the contribution of contemporary continental philosophy to our understanding of the communicative constitution of reality. --Fran ois Cooren, author of Action and Agency in Dialogue: Passion, Incarnation, and Ventriloquism

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 Embodiment, Relation, Community succeeds in enlivening the philosophy of communication by inventively crossing traditions and squarely facing the uncertainties of communication. The book's three major strengths are its nuanced interrogation of the imperative to communicate, fluid demonstration of the relation between immunization and communication, and trenchant analysis of the ontologically communicative body. --Gary Genosko, author of Remodeling Communication: From WWII to the WWW This is a wonderful book. Drawing upon thinkers such as Jean-Luc Nancy, Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito, and others, Garnet Butchart reflects on communication and communicates his reflection in a most honest and graceful manner. As we read this text, our experiences of communication, of being in common with others, are brought back to their very foundation. --Briankle Chang, author of Deconstructing Communication: Representation, Subject, and Economies of Exchange Unlike work that has been published in cultural studies, Butchart's study is not 'post-phenomenology' or in any way antagonistic to the tradition of thought that preceded it. It is, simply, the future of the field. It carefully explores some of the most important thematic and problematic concerns in the philosophy of human communication. --Frank J. Macke, author of The Experience of Human Communication: Body, Flesh, and Relationship Garnet C. Butchart convincingly shows that we are always in communication and that one of its primary operative functions is immunization, a concept Butchart borrows from Roberto Esposito. Communication, paradoxically, is what restricts and enables, what is both threat and defense, exposure and shoring up, contamination and protection. An indispensable book for those wanting to understand the contribution of contemporary continental philosophy to our understanding of the communicative constitution of reality. --Fran ois Cooren, author of Action and Agency in Dialogue: Passion, Incarnation, and Ventriloquism

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Garnet C. Butchart is Assistant Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Duquesne University.

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