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Compared with other human and social sciences, communication theory
appears to be of recent origin. Appearances deceive, however, for
the antecedents of this growing field of work can be found in the
classic philosophical treatises of western and non-western thinkers
including Plato, Sextus Empiricus and Laozi, reaching forward
through the theolinguistic tradition of St Augustine, Boethius,
Averroes and Ockham before arriving at the modern age. Following
Wittgenstein's linguistic turn and Husserl's phenomenology in the
early decades of the twentieth century, we arrive at the fertile
plains of semiotics, information theory, pragmatics and dialogism
out of which communication theory has grown. And yet an unresolved
and historically non-coincidental tension remains between the
implicit transcendental claims of much of communication theory and
our experiences of risk, uncertainty and dissolution in what
Zygmunt Bauman has described as our 'liquid age'. As communication
theory matures, it is an opportune moment to reflect on what form a
detranscendentalised theory of communication might take. In
bringing intentions, understandings, meanings and interactions down
to earth this book invites its readers to account for the complex
communications between communications, actors and social processes
without recourse to transcendental theories of understanding.
It is twenty-five years since Jurgen Habermas published his "Theory
of Communicative Action." Colin B. Grant shares the same commitment
to a philosophical theory of communication but issues a range of
challenges to Habermas' magnum opus. "Uncertainty and
Communication" mounts a critique of theories of dialogism and
intersubjectivity, proposes a radical rethinking of the
communicating subject in society and explores the new contingencies
of culture and media in our interconnected global communication
system.
Sharing a commitment to the theory of communication to Habermas'
Theory of Communicative Action , Grant here issues a range of
challenges to it. He critiques theories of dialogism and
intersubjectivity, proposes a rethinking of the communicating
subject in society and explores the new contingencies of culture
and media in today's world.
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien,
2002.
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