Materialities of Communication (Writing Science) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804722641 ISBN 13: 9780804722643

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 1994

Synopsis

The essays collected in this volume mark an epistemological borderline, a stage of transition in Western thought. Within the humanities, this transition can be described as a movement away from 'interpretation' (as identification of meaning) toward problems concerning the conditions of the constitutions of meaning. This concentration on the material acknowledges a philosophical warning against an ever increasing degree of abstraction that threatens the loss of contact with the concrete and sensual dimensions of our experience. The contributors include several major participants in the recent reorientation of the humanities.

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The essays in this volume refers to an epistemological borderline, a stage of transition in Western thought. Within the academic field of the humanities, this transition can be described as a movement away from the identification of meaning toward problems concerning the conditions and forms of meaning-constitution.

Edition details

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804722641
• ISBN 13: 9780804722643
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 447
• Editor: Gumbrecht Hans Ulrich, Pfeiffer K. Ludwig