Transgressing Discourses: Communication and the Voice of Other

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Michael Huspek, Gary P. Radford
State University of New York Press, Jul 17, 1997 - Philosophy - 423 pages
The basic theme of this volume is excellent. Readers are treated to fascinating explorations of communication at the boundaries between discourses and selves. The essays address important theoretical issues, and do so often by treating significant social issues. Most welcome is the constructive tone that is for the most part maintained throughout the volume, demonstrating an effort to understand, engage, and critically assess different discourses and selves (and others) at once, without valorizing one over the other.

An essential theme running through this volume is the idea that our efforts to engage, as well as other's efforts to engage us, have been seriously impaired because of problems which are fundamentally communicative in nature. More specifically, there is general agreement among the contributors that the voice of other has not been sufficiently heard, and this on account of how discourses of the human sciences, as well as other dominant discourses (e.g. law) have structured our interaction with other. Each of the essays helps to clarify the nature of the communicative failing and to develop an appropriate corrective action.
 

Contents

SEEING ONESELF THROUGH
47
Three
53
FOUCAULT ON THE OTHER WITHIN 35
95
Five
117
Seven
161
ESTABLISHING INTERDEPENDENCE
173
Eight
195
Nine
231
COMMUNICATION MULTIPLE
251
Eleven
269
Twelve
289
Thirteen
296
Postscript
353
About the Contributors
359
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Michael Huspek is Associate Professor of Communication at California State University, San Marcos Gary P. Radford is Associate Professor of Communication at William Paterson College of New Jersey.

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