Overview

In this volume, Garnet C. Butchart shows how human communication can be understood as embodied relations and not merely as a mechanical process of transmission. Expanding on contemporary philosophies of speech and language, self and other, and community and immunity, this book challenges many common assumptions, constructs, and problems of communication theory while offering compelling new resources for future study. Human communication has long been characterized as a problem of transmitting information, or the “outward” sharing of “inner thought” through mediated channels of exchange. Butchart questions that model and the various theories to which it gives rise. Drawing from the work of Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Jacques Lacan—thinkers who, along with Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault, have critiqued the modern notion of a rational subject—Butchart shows that the subject is shaped by language rather than preformed, and that humans embody, and not just use, the signs and contexts of interaction that form what he calls a “communication community.” Accessibly written and engagingly researched, Embodiment, Relation, Community is relevant for researchers and advanced students of communication, cultural studies, translation, and rhetorical studies, especially those who work with a humanistic or interpretive paradigm.

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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: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780271083261

ISBN 10:   0271083263
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   06 March 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
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

Reviews

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 G. 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. -Francois Cooren, author of Action and Agency in Dialogue: Passion, Incarnation, and Ventriloquism

Embodiment, Relation, Community is a philosophical investigation of human communication aimed at resolving the epistemological problematic presented by Communication Studies' inability to deal adequately with the longstanding problem of the impossibility of non-communication and the destabilizing effect of this problem on the communicative subject. More specifically, Butchart resolves this longstanding problematic with an ontological account in which the possibility of human community in communicative practices is laid bare. -Kurt Pabst, Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy 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 G. 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. -Francois 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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