The Long Path to Nearness: A Contribution to a Corporeal Philosophy of Communication and the Groundwork for an Ethics of Relief - Hardcover

RAMSEY, Eric Ramsey. (SIGNED)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0391040480 ISBN 13: 9780391040489

Publisher: Humanities, 1998

Synopsis

"In this carefully crafted volume, Professor Ramsey provides the reader with a thoughtful and provocative investigation of pivotal issues at the crossroads of the disciplines of philosophy and the communication sciences. The interpretive analysis and argumentation throughout the text propels one through the details of the corporeal philosophy of communication concluding with a philosophically imaginative and quite original perspective on the discourse and practice of the ethical." -- Calvin O. Schrag, George Ade Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University

THE LONG PATH TO NEARNESS takes its place among the recent interdisciplinary work being done at the intersection of philosophy and communication studies. Bringing together Reichian psychoanalysis, the utopian Marxism of Ernst Bloch, and a rigorous phenomenology of communication following Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, Ramsey argues that studies of corporeality are a necessary component of a philosophy of communicative praxis directed toward ethical concerns. Arguing for a return to the body to address questions of ethics, Ramsey demonstrates that the communicative disclosure of worldly possibilities arises out of the conjuction of physical and hermeneutical capabilities of bodies and the material potentiality of situations. It is against this backdrop, which includes a detailed description of communicative praxis in a world destined by technology, that Ramsey develops the groundwork for an "ethics of relief."

This study will be of interest to students of Philosophy and Communication Studies, as well as those in Cultural Studies and Sociology, who address theoretical issues concerning discourse, the body, and ethics.

About this title

About the Author:

Ramsey Eric Ramsey teaches courses on the philosophy of communication and rhetoric in the Department of Communication Studies at Arizona State University West in Phoenix.

Review:

..". an invaluable tool for tackling the central challenge of postmodernism: 'how to act ethically in the absence of guarantees.'"

About this edition

• Publisher: Humanities
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0391040480
• ISBN 13: 9780391040489
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1