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Edited by Michael Huspek and Gary P. Radford
Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1997
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An essential theme running through Transgressing Discourses: Communication
and the Voice of Other is the idea
that our efforts to engage other, 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
Communication and the Voice of Other, Michael Huspek,
California State University at San Marcos
Textual Violence in Academe: On Writing With Respect
for One's Others, John Shotter, University of New Hampshire
Seeing Oneself Through Others' Eyes in Social Inquiry, Klaus Krippendorff,
University of Pennsylvania
Unheard Voices from Unknown Places: Saving the
Subject for Science, Lenore Langsdorf, Southern Illinois
University at Carbondale
Foucault on the "Other Within", Michael Huspek, California State
University at San Marcos
Foucault Inserted: Philosophy, Struggle, and Transgression,
Gary P. Radford, Fairleigh Dickinson University
An Attempt to Contribute to the Rhetoric of Science Movement:
From Monologue to Dialogue, Branislav Kovacic, University of Hartford,
Donald P. Cushman, State University of New York at Albany and
Robert C. MacDougall, State University of New York at Albany
Establishing Interdependence in Employee-Owned
Democratic Organizations, Teresa M. Harrison, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute
Transcribing the Body and Materializing
the Subject: Women's Victim Narratives in Penalty
Phase Testimony, Sara Cobb, Fielding Institute,
Santa Barbara, CA
Channel Surfing for Rape and Resistance on Court TV, Lynn Comerford,
University of San Diego
Insiders in the Body: Communication,
Multiple Personalities, and the Body Politic, Jospeph Gemin,
University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh
Defining Occupational Disease:
An Archaeology of Medical Knowledge, Alan G. Gross, University of
Minnesota - Twin Cities
Shooting Downwind: Depicting the
Radiated Body in Epidemiology and Documentary Photography, Bryan C. Taylor,
University of
Colorado at Boulder
The Limits of Communication:
Lyotard and Levinas on Otherness, Andrew R. Smith, Edinboro University
of Pennsylvania
Transgressing Discourses, The Voice of Other, and Kant's Foggy
Island of Truth, Gary P. Radford, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Reviews
"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.
"This volume is
engaging to read. It addresses important theoretical issues
from styles of academic writing and arguing, to subjectivities,
to Foucault's notions of discourse, struggle, and blank space,
to otherness, to social constructions of the body. Additionally,
significant social issues are addressed from legal and medical
proceedings, to rape, to effects of radiation. Combining these
ideas with these issues, and addressing the general theme of
boundaries between discourses and selves, takes the reader
through a rich and fascinating set of theoretical materials and
social dynamics."
-- Donal Carbaugh, author of Situating Selves:
The Communication of Social Identities in American Scenes
Michael Huspek is Associate Professor of Communication
at California State University, San Marcos. Gary P. Radford
is Associate Professor of Communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University,
Madison, New Jersey.
A volume in the SUNY series, Human Communication Processes
Donald P. Cushman and
Ted J. Smith III, editors
State University of
New York Press
320 pages May 1997
Paperback ISBN 0-7914-3354-4
hardcover ISBN 0-7914-3353-6
State University of New York Press
State University Plaza
Albany, NY 12246-0001
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