The Long Path to Nearness: A Contribution to a Corporeal Philosophy of Communication - Softcover

Ramsey, Eric

9781573927758: The Long Path to Nearness: A Contribution to a Corporeal Philosophy of Communication

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1573927759 ISBN 13: 9781573927758

Publisher: Humanities Press, 1998

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. Ramsey's work, which includes a detailed description of communicative praxis in a world whose destiny is determined by technology, offers an original response to this situation by developing an "ethics of relief."

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About the Author:

Ramsey Eric Ramsey teaches at Arizona State University West in Phoenix, AZ. He holds a Ph.D. from the Joint Program in Philosophy and Communication, Purdue University. Dr. Ramsey is the recipient of the Arizona State University at the West campus award for Excellence in Teaching, a Wakonse Teaching Fellow, and multiple-time nominee for the ASU Parents Association Professor of the Year Award. He teaches advanced honors seminars in philosophy as well as sections of the Barrett first-year seminar The Human Event.

Dr. Ramsey’s research is undertaken from a continental philosophical perspective dealing with questions concerning the ethical practice of communication. He is the author of two books: Leaving Us to Wonder: An Essay on the Questions Science Can’t Ask (co-authored with the biologist Linda Wiener) and The Long Path to Nearness, a philosophical contribution to communication theory and ethics. He is also the editor of and contributor to the book Experiences Between Philosophy and Communication. He has published numerous essays and book chapters in major journals and in edited collections. Dr. Ramsey is the originator and editor of the Philosophy/Communication Book Series.

Review:

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

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