Embodiment in the Semiotic Matrix - Communicology in Peirce, Dewey, Bateson, and Bourdieu

This book deepens our understanding of the human capacity to produce and share meaning by exploring the intersection of American pragmatism and European philosophy in the conscious experience of communication and culture, highlighting the contributions of C. S. Peirce, John Dewey, Gregory Bateson, and Pierre Bourdieu to communicology.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction: Philosophy of Communication and the Recompense of Human Science
Chapter 2: The Human Science of Embodied Discourse
Chapter 3: Body as Sign: The Semiotic Phenomenology Paradigm
Chapter 4: Recursive Logic in Communicology
Chapter 5: Ecological Communication: Bateson's "New Science"
Chapter 6: Habitus in the Matrix: From Peirce to Bourdieu
Chapter 7: Culture in Consciousness
Chapter 8: Conduct: Nature in Culture from Dewey to Bourdieu
Chapter 9: Cultures of Conduct: Linguistic Habitus and Semiotic Relativity
Bibliography

About the author

Isaac E. Catt is visiting scholar in philosophy of communication at Duquesne University.

Product details

• Authors: Isaac E. Catt
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.09.2017
• EAN: 9781611479768
• ISBN: 978-1-61147-976-8
• No. of pages: 252
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 565 g
• Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Communication Studies
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries