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Journal of Applied Hermeneutics, 2019
In the phenomenological tradition, which took root in the first part of the twentieth century, the issue of intersubjectivity became prominent as a way of characterizing social life. But as seen in the work of Edith Stein, for example, this philosophy of intersubjectivity gives prominence to the subject, and as such it leaves open not only the question of the basic character of social life, but also the hermeneutic problem of understanding the other. The focus of my remarks in this paper will explore the way in which Gadamer moves beyond a philosophy of subjectivity in his effort to establish the conditions for communicative understanding. For Gadamer, communicative understanding only occurs through a genuine way of being with another. It requires not just being in relation to the other but a form of participation that amounts to an idea of shared life. Gadamer establishes the precise character of this shared life in relation to his critical encounter with Karl Löwith's version of the I-Thou relation.
Marshalling a mind-numbing array of data, Harvard political scientist Robert D. Putnam, in his book Bowling Alone, shows that on virtually every conceivable measure, civic participation, or what he refers to as "social capital," is plummeting to levels not seen for almost 100 years. And we should care, Putnam argues, because connectivity is directly related to both individual and social wellbeing on a wide variety of measures. On the other hand, social capital of the "bond-ing kind" brings with it the ugly side effect of animosity toward outsiders. Given the increasing heterogeneity of our world, the goal therefore must be to enhance connectivity of the "bridging sort," i.e., connecting across differences. This, in turn, requires that we first clarify what bridging communicative styles looks like. Examining communication as it might transpire (a) in Kant's kingdom of ends, (b) through the perspective of Habermas' "communicative action,"...
and Community in Sixteenth-Century France, ed. Cathy Yandell and David LaGuardia, 2015
Abstract Satires’ vitriolic nature made them poor tools of propaganda. Rather than as instruments of persuasion, they often read as anxious to foreground their own inflated diffusion, power to provoke, and coherence through retrospective serialization that suggested a fictional continuity. If part publicity stunt, however, these satires also cannily exploited and extended the reformed theological concept of “communication” by which the traditional corporeal understanding of the social body, figured in Communion, was replaced with spiritual connection to Jesus and, ultimately, to fellow worshipers. Satires’ emphasis on foreignness and distance from one’s neighbors in particular facilitated a kind of “stranger sociability” with fellow reformed readers they did not know. This theological origin suggests that the modern public sphere began with the communication of the Mass before it transformed into mass communication.
REVIEW OF COMMUNICATION, 2015
Presentation paper on "The Philosophy of Communication: Centennial Symposium" at the National Communication Association (USA) annual conference. Focus on the origin of the discipline of "Philosophy of Communication" internationally and in the USA. EXTENDS: "Paradigm Shifts: Recalling the Early ICA and the Later PHILCOM" (2005).
Atlantic Journal of Communication, 2019
Language and Dialogue
Roy Harris identifies the “main flaw” in J. L. Austin’s account of language as a “failure to consider to what extent being able to ‘do things with words’ is parasitic on being able to do things without them”. Harris’s comment here serves as a springboard for a critical evaluation of communicational theories based around “talk-in-interaction” or dialogic principles. The primacy thereby given to linguistic interaction arguably entails a mystification of communication processes and the dis-integration of the social world into which our communicational experiences are intervowen. Consequently, the ghost of segregationism, in the shape of Harris’s “fallacy of verbalism”, continues to haunt, at times faintly, at times aggressively, the assumptions and methodologies of the approaches in question.
Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2022
https://www.contributors.ro/situatia-datoriilor-externe-ale-romaniei-poloniei-iugoslaviei-si-ungariei-1988-1989/, 2024
Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research, 2017
Hyuku Journal of Interdisciplinary Research, vol 1, no 1, 2017
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), 2023
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), 2003
The International Journal of Humanities & Social Studies
E3S web of conferences, 2024
Ozone-science & Engineering, 2006
Bioinformatics, 2021