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100 1 $aPeters, John Durham.
245 10 $aSpeaking into the air :$ba history of the idea of communication /$cJohn Durham Peters.
260 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c1999.
300 $ax, 293 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $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.
505 0 $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.
650 0 $aCommunication$xPhilosophy$xHistory.
650 0 $aCommunication$xHistory.
650 0 $aCommunication$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aMass media$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aCommunication$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aCommunication$xTechnological innovations$xSocial aspects.
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