The long path to nearness: A contribution to a corporeal philosophy of communication
Abstract
This study develops a philosophy of communication by exploring communication from the point of view of praxis. This leads to seeing communication and its relation to possibility. Possibility is then broken down into two related moments, one called active capacity and the other passive potentiality, and the argument is made that possibility comes about in the conjunction of these two moments of possibility. Communication, it is argued, plays a fundamental role in the process of bringing these two moments of possibility into conjunction. As the analysis proceeds it becomes necessary to see the role the body (i.e., corporeality) plays in the process of bring together the moments of possibility in communication praxis. The entire project is directed beyond the academy toward liberation politics or as it is called in this work: the radical continuation of the Enlightenment project.
Degree
Ph.D.
Advisors
Burleson, Purdue University.
Subject Area
Communication|Philosophy
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