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000775573 1001_ $$aPeters, John Durham.
000775573 24510 $$aSpeaking into the air :$$ba history of the idea of communication /$$cJohn Durham Peters.
000775573 250__ $$aPaperback edition.
000775573 260__ $$aChicago :$$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$$c2000.
000775573 300__ $$ax, 293 pages ;$$c23 cm
000775573 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent
000775573 337__ $$aunmediated$$bn$$2rdamedia
000775573 338__ $$avolume$$bnc$$2rdacarrier
000775573 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000775573 5050_ $$aIntroduction : the problem of communication. The historicity of communication -- The varied senses of "communication" -- Sorting theoretical debates in (and via) the 1920s -- Technical and therapeutic discourses after World War II. 1. Dialogue and dissemination. Dialogue and eros in the Phaedrus -- Dissemination in the synoptic gospels. 2. History of an error : the spiritualist tradition. Christian sources -- From matter to mind : "communication" in the seventeenth century -- Nineteenth-century spiritualism. 3. Toward a more robust vision of spirit : Hegel, Marx, and Kierkegaard. Hegel on recognition -- Marx (versus Locke) on money -- Kierkegaard's incognitos.
000775573 5050_ $$a4. Phantasms of the living, dialogues with the dead. Recording and transmission -- Hermeneutics as communication with the dead -- Dead letters. 5. The quest for authentic connection, or bridging the chasm. The interpersonal walls of idealism -- Fraud or contact? : James on psychical research -- Reach out and touch someone : the telephonic uncanny -- Radio : broadcasting as dissemination (and dialogue). 6. Machines, animals, and aliens : horizons of incommunicability. The Turing test and the insuperability of eros -- Animals and empathy with the inhuman -- Communication with aliens. Conclusion : a squeeze of the hand. The gaps of which communication is made -- The privilege of the receiver -- The dark side of communication -- The irreducibility of touch and time.
000775573 520__ $$aSpeaking into the Air traces the yearning for contact, not only through philosophy and literature, but also by exploring the cultural reception of communication technologies from the telegraph to the radio.
000775573 650_0 $$aCommunication$$xPhilosophy$$xHistory.
000775573 650_0 $$aCommunication$$xHistory.
000775573 650_0 $$aCommunication$$xPhilosophy.
000775573 650_0 $$aMass media$$xSocial aspects.
000775573 650_0 $$aCommunication$$xSocial aspects.
000775573 650_0 $$aCommunication$$xTechnological innovations$$xSocial aspects.
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