Dialogic Moments: From Soul Talks to Talk Radio in Israeli Culture (Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology) - Hardcover

Katriel, Tamar

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814327745 ISBN 13: 9780814327746

Publisher: Wayne State University Press, 2004

Synopsis

The vision of communication as authentic dialogue, as the mutual communion of souls, has animated a great many twentieth century discussions of language and communication, both in scholarly writings and in various forms and contexts of popular culture. In its various manifestations, this communicative utopia has identified dialogue or conversation as a locus of authenticity of both individuals and groups. This study traces the ways in which this utopian vision of communication has played itself out in the particular context of Israeli society through the twentieth century, encapsulating central trends in the evolving Israeli cultural conversation over the years. In this sense, it is a historically-situated study of the cultural fluctuations of a given society in all its particularity. In another sense, however, it seeks to offer a more general statement about the culturally constructed nature of the quest for authenticity as a project of modernity by focusing on conceptions of communication and language as its quintessential loci."
-From the Introduction by Tamar Katriel

About this title

Book Description:

An original ethnographic study about communication and culture in Palestine and Israel during the Twentieth Century, examining three modes of communication-soul talks, straight talk, and talk radio.

About the Author:

Tamar Katriel is professor of education and communication at the University of Haifa in Israel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0814327745
• ISBN 13: 9780814327746
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 402