Deconstructing Communication: Representation, Subject, and Economies of Exchange
by Briankle Chang
University of Minnesota Press, 1996 Paper: 978-0-8166-2645-8 | Cloth: 978-0-8166-2644-1 Library of Congress Classification P90.C48 1996 Dewey Decimal Classification 302.201
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I.
The Transcendental Economy
1
Phenomenology and After
Crisis and Beyond: The Phenomenological Way
Phenomenological Reduction: From Phenomenon to Eidos
Phenomenology as Transcendental Egology
I and Others: The Problem of Intersubjectivity
Phenomenology and Philosophical Modernism
2
Communication before Deconstruction
A Note on the Problematic
The Question Then … : Communication and the Communicative Subject
Communication as Mediation: The Postal Principle
Metaphorics at Large in Communication
Rereading the Problematic of Communication
Ignotum per Ignotius; or, Theoretical Ventriloquism
3
The Inaugural Relation: Toward an Ontology of Communication
Reading the Circle and the Hermeneutic Return
You Must Take for Granted the Taken-for-Granted
Grounding the Life-World: Social Ontology
Fundamental Ontology: Quo Vadis?
The There of Being
Being as Relational Totality
Toward an Ontology of Communication
Part II.
The Economy of Difference
4
The In-Difference of Being
Like a Novel Commodity: What Is Deconstruction?
The Odd Couple Aujourd'hui: Heidegger and Derrida
Deconstruction and the Ontological Difference
From Destruction to Deconstruction: Homecoming versus Nomadism
Derridean Doubt and the Metaphysics of Presence
Deconstruction I: Strategic Seduction and Seductive Strategy
Deconstruction II: The Double Science
Being and Its Void
Loose Play: Différance
Being and/or Text
Beginning Ends?
5
Deconstructing Communication: Derrida and the (Im)Possibility of Communication
What Is the Message? Positivity as the Critical Dogmatics of Communication
Two Roads Diverge after Positivity: The Material and the Textual
Loud Voice versus Quiet Writing
The Logocentric Scandal of Speech
The Logocentric Scandal of Communication: Is It Possible?
Signing Off: Signature, Communication, and the Postal Paradox