[Commlist] New Book Announcement: Embodiment, Relation, Community

New Book: /Embodiment, Relation, Community: A Continental Philosophy of 
Communication /(Penn State University Press, 2019) by Garnet C. 
Butchart, Duquesne University

 >From the publisher:

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.

30% off with code NR18 when ordered through the Penn State University 
Press web site at this URL: 
http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-08325-4.html






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