Human Image in Helmuth Plessner, Pierre Bourdieu, and Psychocentric Culture

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

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, philosophy, psychiatry, cultural studies, mental distress, and psychology will find this book of particular interest.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-02-09
Mått:160 x 231 x 23 mm
Vikt:540 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:234
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781666918557
Utmärkelser:Winner of 2024 Distinguished Book Award in Philosophy of Communication 2024

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Isaac E. Catt is visiting scholar in philosophy of communication at Duquesne University.

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This book is a major contribution to our current understanding of the practical combination of philosophy and communicology as an applied human science. An exceptionally well researched critique of the regrettable consilience and hypostatization found in post-positive '“cognitive science,”'especially the counterfeit and misguided beliefs that (1) psychopathology is an organic '“brain”' problem and that (2) '“Big Pharma”' provides the solution of psychopharmacology. An excellent introduction to the synergism of phenomenology, semiotics, and communication science grounded in the discourse model of human embodied speaking and listening. A '“must read”' for students of applied communication and philosophy. Best of all, the author gives a readable explication of the failed machine metaphor of '“information theory”' in computers, and, replaces it with the practical experience of '“communication theory”' as the living voice of human culture.”

Innehållsförteckning

Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart One: Disembodied Images of the Human PersonChapter 1: Problematics of Communication in Signifying the Human PersonChapter 2: A Crisis of Communication in the Human Sciences Then and NowChapter 3: Where It Hurts: Pathologizing Everyday Life in Psychocentric Culture Part Two: Embodied Images of the Human PersonChapter 4: Helmuth Plessner’s Image of Embodied CommunicationChapter 5: Constructing a New Image of the Human Person: Bourdieu and Plessner on Psychological PrecarityChapter 6: Being Human in Communication BibliographyAbout the Author