世新大學圖書館

國科會補助人文及社會科學硏究圖書計畫(2888577)

pbk. edition, 2000

Includes bibliographical references and index

4. 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

Introduction : 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