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In The Human Image in Helmuth Plessner, Pierre Bourdieu, and
Psychocentric Culture, Isaac E. Catt offers a unique criticism of
naturalistic reductions of humans to animals, to neuro substrates
and to DNA. Catt explores a new interpretation of Plessner and
Bourdieu, revealing the combinatory logic of semiotic phenomenology
in both and their common problematic of communication. Through an
emergent synthesis of philosophical anthropology and communicology,
this book provides a basis for criticism of the failed mechanistic
medical model in psychiatry, a fresh argument for reconceptualizing
psychiatry as a human science, and for construction of a new
ecological image of communicative being. Throughout the book,
alternative attempts to transcend dualisms such as cybernetics,
anti-anthropocentrism, and biosemiotics are revealed to risk
reification of the very objects of their analysis. Scholars of
communication, semiotics, and psychology will find this book of
particular interest.
Winner of the National Communication Association 2018 Philosophy of
Communication Division Top Edited Book Award This edited volume
develops the philosophy of communication inspired by the
scholarship of Richard L. Lanigan, with emphasis on communicology
as a human science. Lanigan's syntheses of the philosophies of
speech, language and discourse stemming from the works of Edmund
Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva,
Charles Sanders Peirce, Roman Jakobson, Umberto Eco, Pierre
Bourdieu, Jurgen Reusch and Gregory Bateson, and many others offers
a compelling framework for systematic analysis of human
communication in all domains of lived experience. His work defines
the theory and method of the human sciences in general and the
discipline of communicology in particular. The focus in this
collection is on the theoretical and methodological foundations for
semiotic phenomenology whereby communication is recognized as
constitutive of all human conscious experience and social
relationships, involving gestural, nonverbal, discursive,
performative, artistic, poetic and mass mediated forms. The volume
is divided into five thematic sections: Founding(s), which marks
out primary influences on communicology conceived as a human
science; Tropologic(s), which reveals how abduction, adduction and
semiosis are essential for understanding human conduct in multiple
forms of expression; Trans/formations, which addresses problems of
change in self-other relations advancing an ethical life; Voicing
Bodies/Embodied Voices, which elaborates the reversible relations
between body and voice, and voice and world; and Horizons of
Communicability, which takes up operative intentionalities that
typically escape human conscious experience. All chapters are
original to this volume, written by leading international scholars
in the philosophy of communication who cross several disciplinary
boundaries in the human sciences.
Winner of the National Communication Association 2018 Philosophy of
Communication Division Top Edited Book Award This edited volume
develops the philosophy of communication inspired by the
scholarship of Richard L. Lanigan, with emphasis on communicology
as a human science. Lanigan's syntheses of the philosophies of
speech, language and discourse stemming from the works of Edmund
Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva,
Charles Sanders Peirce, Roman Jakobson, Umberto Eco, Pierre
Bourdieu, Jurgen Reusch and Gregory Bateson, and many others offers
a compelling framework for systematic analysis of human
communication in all domains of lived experience. His work defines
the theory and method of the human sciences in general and the
discipline of communicology in particular. The focus in this
collection is on the theoretical and methodological foundations for
semiotic phenomenology whereby communication is recognized as
constitutive of all human conscious experience and social
relationships, involving gestural, nonverbal, discursive,
performative, artistic, poetic and mass mediated forms. The volume
is divided into five thematic sections: Founding(s), which marks
out primary influences on communicology conceived as a human
science; Tropologic(s), which reveals how abduction, adduction and
semiosis are essential for understanding human conduct in multiple
forms of expression; Trans/formations, which addresses problems of
change in self-other relations advancing an ethical life; Voicing
Bodies/Embodied Voices, which elaborates the reversible relations
between body and voice, and voice and world; and Horizons of
Communicability, which takes up operative intentionalities that
typically escape human conscious experience. All chapters are
original to this volume, written by leading international scholars
in the philosophy of communication who cross several disciplinary
boundaries in the human sciences.
Communicology is widely accepted on the international scene as a
new name for the study of human communication. It replaces several
equivocal disciplinary conceptions such as "communication," which
may fail to distinguish the science of communication from its
object of investigation or the message-centered "communication
studies," which often obfuscates information exchange with the
experience of shared meaning in human encounters. Communicology
differs from the American mainstream social science of
communication not only because it is grounded in communication
theory rather than information theory, but also because it advances
a philosophically informed ecological perspective on human
discourse. This book is intended as a contribution to the
philosophy of communication and the human science of communicology.
Semiotic phenomenology is thoroughly described as the synthetic
logic that combines a philosophy of consciousness with a science of
culture and conduct to explicate the lifeworld habitus.
Consciousness is viewed as cultural-semiotic and experience as
personal-phenomenological. This is a reciprocal, reflexive
relationship in which culture is conceived as consciousness of
communication and communication the manifest experience of culture.
The book describes embodiment so conceived, including the history
of the matrix idea in American pragmatism and European philosophy
as they commingled in the United States to produce a unique
discipline of communication, the science of embodied discourse.
Important roots of this new discipline are described for the first
time here in a unique synthesis of C. S. Peirce, John Dewey,
Gregory Bateson, and Pierre Bourdieu. In addition, the semiotic
relativity hypothesis is argued to be an important implication of
this new discipline. Transcending the stale debate on language and
thought, the limited conception of linguistic relativity is
considerably broadened and deepened. The distinctive lifeworld of
humans is argued to occur at the threshold of sign consciousness in
the semiotic matrix of culture-society-person. Semiotic
phenomenology is not only a synthesis of two great European
philosophical movements, structuralism and phenomenology; it is
also the essence of American pragmatism. This view culminates in
the contemporary human science of communicology.
This book offers a new way of thinking about communication that
moves beyond normative perspectives. Exhibiting postmodern theory,
communicology is an idea whose time has come. Working within the
European human science tradition and the philosophy of American
pragmatism, the authors included in this first anthology of its
kind applies a synthesis of semiotics and phenemology to the study
of the cultural and social conditions of communicative praxis.
Framed by the themes of human agency and efficacy, these essays
focus on the realms of conscious experience in intrapersonal
communicology (the self-domain), interpersonal communicology
(self-other domain), social communicology (group-organization
domain), and cultural communicology (group-to-group domain,
including mass media and trans-cultural communication). It is the
usual case in the social sciences that communication is ignored or
treated as a means to more substantative ends. More-over, much work
within discourse study proceeds on implicit, deeply held,
culturally embedded ontological and epistemological assumptions
about communication that are positivistic. Hence, uncritical and
non-reflexive approaches to communication and discourse prevail.
This book provides an alternative to readers curious about the
fundamental nature of human communication rather than viewing this
phenomenon as a mere vehicle for referents or thoughts. A
designation first introduced in the United States in the 1950s by
founders of the International Communication Association, the term
communicology is now used to define parameters of a unique research
endeavor. At its heart is the refusal of the dominant logos of
discourse as the only legitimate expression of the humane. Broadly
defined as the study of human discourse, this critical-interpretive
approach interrogates the reversible, reciprocal, and reflexive
nature of the "expressive and perceptive body," understood as the
point of mediation between us and the cultural signs and codes of
discourse in which we live. Communicology i
Philosophy of Communication Ethics is a unique and timely
contribution to the study of communication ethics. This series of
essays articulates unequivocally the intimate connection between
philosophy of communication and communication ethics. This
scholarly volume assumes that there is a multiplicity of
communication ethics. What distinguishes one communication ethic
from another is the philosophy of communication in which a
particular ethic is grounded. Philosophy of communication is the
core ingredient for understanding the importance of and the
difference between and among communication ethics. The position
assumed by this collection is consistent with Alasdair MacIntyre s
insights on ethics. In A Short History of Ethics, he begins with
one principal assertion philosophy is subversive. If one cannot
think philosophically, one cannot question taken-for-granted
assumptions. In the case of communication ethics, to fail to think
philosophically is to miss the bias, prejudice, and assumptions
that constitute a given communication ethic."
Philosophy of Communication Ethics is a unique and timely
contribution to the study of communication ethics. This series of
essays articulates unequivocally the intimate connection between
philosophy of communication and communication ethics. This
scholarly volume assumes that there is a multiplicity of
communication ethics. What distinguishes one communication ethic
from another is the philosophy of communication in which a
particular ethic is grounded. Philosophy of communication is the
core ingredient for understanding the importance of and the
difference between and among communication ethics. The position
assumed by this collection is consistent with Alasdair MacIntyre's
insights on ethics. In A Short History of Ethics, he begins with
one principal assertion-philosophy is subversive. If one cannot
think philosophically, one cannot question taken-for-granted
assumptions. In the case of communication ethics, to fail to think
philosophically is to miss the bias, prejudice, and assumptions
that constitute a given communication ethic.
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