Experiences between Philosophy and Communication

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Providing developments and advancements concerning the thought of Calvin O. Schrag, this book includes the first full-length interview with the American continental philosopher and covers his long and illustrative philosophical contribution to thinking about the consequences of communication. The influence of Schrag's work is significant and broad, and these nine thought-provoking pieces by leading scholars whose work has been influenced by his philosophy presents the best contemporary thought on communicative praxis. Encompassing questions of democracy, the public and private spheres, and relations inside organizational structures, to questions of giving and ethics, rhetoric and narrative, suffering and love, this is a wellspring of insight and provocation for both those already familiar with Schrag's work and those seeking a keen invitation to his many critical reflections.

Introduction: In-between Philosophy and Communication Studies
Ramsey Eric Ramsey

Part I. Conversation as Invitation to Dialogue

1. From the Loving Struggle to the Struggle to Love: A Conversation with Calvin O. Schrag
Ramsey Eric Ramsey and David James Miller

Part II. Publics and Their Problems

2. Communicative Praxis and Collective Decision Making: From Phenomenology to the Politics of Experience to Dialogic Constitutive Practices
Stanley Deetz, Amy Grim, and Alexander Lyon

3. Limitations of the Public Sphere: The Repressive Voice of Modernity
Raymie McKerrow

4. Transversing Dualisms and Situating the Embodied Self in Organizational Theory and Practice
Majia Holmer Nadesan

Part III. On Giving and Suffering

5. The Gift of Acknowledgment
Michael J. Hyde

6. Awaiting the Year of the Donkey
Stephen Pluhacek

7. On Hearing the Call: From the Pain of Affliction toward Healing
David James Miller and Michael J. Millington

Part IV. Philosophizing the In-between

8. Feminism after Postmodernity: Some Places of Narrative in Communicative Praxis
Dennis K. Mumby

9. Epistemology, Tropology, Hermeneutic, and the "Essence of Language"
Lenore Langsdorf

10. Procreation in a Beautiful Medium: Eroticizing the Vectors of Communicative Praxis
Ramsey Eric Ramsey

Selected Publications by Calvin O. Schrag

Contributors

Index

Sujets

• Philosophy

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• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791486207
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Experiences between Philosophy and Communication

SUNY series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences Lenore Langsdorf, editor

Experiences between Philosophy and Communication 

Engaging the Philosophical Contributions of Calvin O. Schrag

Edited by Ramsey Eric Ramsey and David James Miller

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Experiences between philosophy and communication : engaging the philosophical contributions of Calvin O. Schrag / edited by Ramsey Eric Ramsey and David James Miller. p. cm. — (SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-5875-X (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-7914-5876-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Schrag, Calvin O. 2. Communication—Philosophy. I. Ramsey, Ramsey Eric, 1960– II. Miller, David James, 1957– III. Series.

B945.S3264 E96 2003 191—dc21

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Contents

Introduction: In-between Philosophy and Communication Studies Ramsey Eric Ramsey

Part I. Conversation as Invitation to Dialogue

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From the Loving Struggle to the Struggle to Love: A Conversation with Calvin O. Schrag Ramsey Eric Ramsey and David James Miller

Part II. Publics and Their Problems

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Communicative Praxis and Collective Decision Making: From Phenomenology to the Politics of Experience to Dialogic Constitutive Practices Stanley Deetz, Amy Grim, and Alexander Lyon

Limitations of the Public Sphere: The Repressive Voice of Modernity Raymie McKerrow

Transversing Dualisms and Situating the Embodied Self in Organizational Theory and Practice Majia Holmer Nadesan

Part III. On Giving and Suffering

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The Gift of Acknowledgment Michael J. Hyde

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Awaiting the Year of the Donkey Stephen Pluhácˇek

On Hearing the Call: From the Pain of Affliction toward Healing David James Miller and Michael J. Millington

Part IV. Philosophizing the In-between

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Feminism after Postmodernity: Some Places of Narrative in Communicative Praxis Dennis K. Mumby

Epistemology, Tropology, Hermeneutics, and the “Essence of Language” Lenore Langsdorf

Procreation in a Beautiful Medium: Eroticizing the Vectors of Communicative Praxis Ramsey Eric Ramsey

Selected Publications by Calvin O. Schrag

Contributors

Index

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Introduction

In-between Philosophy and Communication Studies

RAMSEY ERIC RAMSEY

If not inGorgias, then at least byPhaedrus, Plato understands that he would have to think in-between rhetoric and philosophy if he was going to be able to get at things. As Calvin O. Schrag argued in the article that announced his then-forthcoming bookCommunicative Praxis and the Space of Subjectivity,today rhetoric and communication need to be resit- uated at the end of philosophy. With that and subsequent work, Schrag has helped make this resituating possible in unique and profound ways. Those of us who have learned from Professor Schrag—whether as participants in his seminars, readers of his published works, or both—and who teach in departments of communication studies and who work there to philosophize the consequences of this practice, find ourselves having incurred many debts to him. For those as yet unfamiliar with his work, so much remains to be gathered and put to work to assist our thinking about the consequences of communicative praxis across a variety of life-world contexts. I, along with my co-editor David James Miller, have brought together nine essays by leading scholars whose work has engaged and benefited from Schrag’s many contributions and will act in various ways as extensions, explications, and provocations to those studying commu- nicative phenomena. In lieu of a lengthy introduction, we have been given the gift of a full-length interview with Schrag conducted by the editors. The only such interview ever granted, it covers the wide spectrum of issues with which Schrag has dealt in his many scholarly works. Although each contributor to this collection wrote without access to the interview

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(with the exception of the editors), it is amazing to note the ways in which each produced essays that explore the issues raised in this conversation. The work by the contributors shows how widely and deeply influential Schrag’s philosophy is and how much it gives to the future of dialogues concerning theory in the philosophical study of communication. Recently Schrag’s philosophical positions were engaged by Roger Mourad, a philosopher of education, to argue for a postdisciplinary world. Along with my co-editor and all the contributors, I am grateful to be able to make public the following interview and collection of insight- ful essays of this, if not postdisciplinary, then at least interdisciplinary volume responding to Schrag’s philosophical positions from those of us who philosophize elsewhere.

 Part I Conversation as Invitation to Dialogue