The Experience of Human Communication : Body, Flesh, and Relationship /

The Experience of Human Communication approaches everyday communication as a philosophical and psychological matter. Using insights from Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, and Foucault, Frank Macke stresses that human communication-and with it, the human body-is, first and foremost, a relational phenomenon i...

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Main Author: Macke, Frank J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Madison, NJ : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015
Series:Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in communication studies.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Therapy, Vulnerability, and Feeling in the Interstices of Embodied Expression; 3 The Mirrored Body; 4 On Contact; 5 Body, Liquidity, and Flesh; 6 The Diabolical Parable and the Devil in Speech; 7 Identity, Intimacy, and Eroticism; 8 An Archaeology of Gender Symbols and a Theory of Communication; 9 The Flesh of Human Communicative Embodiment and the Game of Intimacy; 10 The Dream and the Self; 11 Conclusion; References; Index.