Recovering Pragmatism's Voice

The Classical Tradition, Rorty, and the Philosophy of Communication

AvLenore Langsdorf,Andrew R. Smith

Häftad, Engelska, 1994

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This book focuses on what pragmatism tells us about the nature and function of communication. Its goals are to recover a singular voice of pragmatism, and to identify and develop alternative methods and aims for the philosophy of communication. It shows how pragmatism assumes and proposes a philosophy of communication that can lead to a reconceptualization of contemporary communication studies.The authors explore recurrent themes in the tradition's various classical extensions that commend pragmatism as a methodology for social change and human development. They show that pragmatism fosters inquiry and pluralism by rejecting strategies for closure, questioning prevailing metanarratives, and encouraging the development of new habits of conduct through a critical practice that is fundamentally self-reflective.Contributors to this volume include Mitchell Aboulafia, Thomas Alexander, Arthur Bochner and Joanne Waugh, Isaac Catt, Vincent Colapietro, Janet Horne, Richard Lanigan, Frank Macke, Mick Presnell, Charlene Haddock Seigfried, and Leonard Shyles.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1994-12-23
Mått:151 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:472 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Antal sidor:344
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9780791422144

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Lenore Langsdorf is Professor of the Philosophy of Communication in the Speech Communication Department of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Andrew R. Smith is Assistant Professor in the Speech and Communication Studies Department at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.

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"This collection supplies us with a nicely balanced set of perspectives—neither dismissive nor adulatory. In the crush of contemporaneity, it's good to have the historical framework reconstructed. And the emphasis on communication creates valuable insight." — Bruce Wilshire, Rutgers University

Innehållsförteckning

I. Introduction 1. The Voice of Pragmatism in Contemporary Philosophy of CommunicationLenore Langsdorf and Andrew R. Smith II. The Logic of Communication 2. Immediacy, Opposition, and Mediation: Peirce on Irreducible Aspects of the Communicative ProcessVincent M. Colapietro 3. From Enthymeme to Abduction: The Classical Law of Logic and the Postmodern Rule of RhetoricRichard L. Lanigan 4. On Ethnocentric Truth and Pragmatic JusticeAndrew R. Smith and Leonard Shyles III. The Ends of Communication 5. The "Cash-Value" of Communication: An Interpretation of William JamesIsaac E. Catt 6. Devising Ends Worth Striving For: William James and the Reconstruction of PhilosophyCharlene Haddock Seigfried IV. The Process of Communication 7. John Dewey and the Roots of Democratic ImaginationThomas M. Alexander 8. Pragmatism Reconsidered: John Dewey and Michel Foucault on the Consequences of InquiryFrank J. Macke V. The Effects of Communication 9. George Herbert Mead and the Many Voices of UniversalityMitchell Aboulafia 10. Philosophy of Language and Philosophy of Communication: Poiesis and Praxis in Classical PragmatismLenore Langsdorf VI. Neopragmatism and Communication 11. Talking-With as a Model for Writing-About: Implications of Rortyean PragmatismArthur P. Bochner and Joanne B. Waugh 12. Changing the Subject: Rorty and Contemporary Rhetorical TheoryJanet S. Horne 13. Icons, Fragments, and Ironists: Richard Rorty and Contemporary Rhetorical CriticismMick Presnell Notes Contributors Name Index Subject Index