
The Experience of Human Communication
Body, Flesh, and Relationship
By: Frank J. Macke
Paperback | 14 October 2016
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Frank Macke's book has enormous implications for the human and social sciences generally and for study of communication in particular. The text is a fresh, bold, intellectually challenging, and at times courageous critique of our taken-for-granted social connections and psychological attachments and the disciplines by which we have heretofore repressed or superficially understood these experiences. This is a work of vitality, of embodied corporeality, and it is about the same. Macke's book has the potential to radically alter communication as a concept and field of endeavor. -- Isaac E. Catt, Isaac E. Catt, Visiting Scholar, Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center at Duquesne University, Fellow, International Communicology Institute, and co-editor, Communicology: The New Science of Embodied Discourse
Frank Macke offers a thoughtful examination of a communication theory that unites evidence and ambiguity. Macke articulates communicology as a human science that dwells within the interplay of everyday human existence, unwilling to retreat into a realm above the fray of humanity. Macke contributes significantly to our understanding of communication with this volume. -- Ronald C. Arnett, Duquesne University, author of Levinas's Rhetorical Demand: The Unending Obligation of Communication Ethics
Professor Macke asks an embarrassing question: Where is the "human" in communication taught in the American classroom and experienced in the typical family? Cutting through decades of superficial talk about "sharing messages," he then asks an old fashioned question: What's the point of talking? With extraordinary clarity and precise scholarship, he helps us understand the psychology of how we come to embody a sense of self-worth and why that emotion matters in the shared community of speech around us: family, friends, strangers. The Experience of Human Communication is a "must read" answer for everyone with a positive interest in today's society and culture. -- Richard L. Lanigan, Director and Fellow, International Communicology Institute, Washington, DC, and University Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Communicology, School of Communication, Southern Illinois University
We're so used to saying that 'one cannot not communicate.' Frank Macke challenges this maxim: we can not communicate-look around you, see how people try to connect with one another, only to fail. The thrust of Frank Macke's book is de-structuring and transformative: he takes the suppressed potential of communication understood scientifically and helps to unbracket and liberate it as expressed relationality. In this thought-provoking work, Macke provides insights into the human communicative experience and advances the science of Communicology. Anyone who reads this book will find it a transformative and richly rewarding experience. -- Igor E. Klyukanov, Professor of Communication Studies, Eastern Washington University
ISBN: 9781611477931
ISBN-10: 161147793X
Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in
Published: 14th October 2016
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 266
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 22.1 x 26.7 x 2.7
Weight (kg): 0.36
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