Communication Universe

Igor E. Klyukanov is professor of communication studies at Eastern Washington University.

• Part 1 Part One: The Future Behind Us: Perspectives on CommunicationPart 2 Chapter 1. Toward the Nature of Communication: UnforgettingChapter 3 Communication UnfoldingChapter 4 The Identity (Crisis) of Communication StudyChapter 5 An Impressive DisarrayPart 6 Chapter 2. Communication Theorizing: Being-(on)-the-WayChapter 7 The (De)Fault of Ontological AssumptionsChapter 8 A Pathway to/of CommunicationChapter 9 Communication as a Moving ExperienceChapter 10 All a Matter of PerspectivePart 11 Part Two: The Staging(s) of CommunicationPart 12 Chapter 3. Up in the Air: Communication as InvocationChapter 13 The Call of CommunicationChapter 14 The Medium is Not the MessageChapter 15 The Noise of TimePart 16 Chapter 4. Down the Stream: Communication as ConversationChapter 17 Communication, ActuallyChapter 18 The Presentation of the OtherChapter 19 Communication in SituChapter 20 That Which Befalls OneChapter 21 Through the Looking-glass, DarklyPart 22 Chapter 5. Of this Earth: Communication as ConstructionChapter 23 Terra FirmaChapter 24 Toward the Common DenominatorChapter 25 Playing the Devil's AdvocateChapter 26 Communication as Poetic JusticePart 27 Chapter 6. Through the Fire: Communication as ResignationChapter 28 The (Un)Bearable Lightness of BeingChapter 29 The Gift that Keeps on GivingChapter 30 The Proteism of CommunicationChapter 31 The Author is Dead - Long Live the Author!Chapter 32 To Be and Not to BeChapter 33 The Present of the WorldPart 34 Part Three: The Past Before Us: Communication BeingPart 35 Chapter 7. Airy Nothing: Communication as TransformationChapter 36 Return: Back to the Things ThemselvesChapter 37 The Breath of PleromaChapter 38 Communion with EternityChapter 39 Democracy of TransspeciesChapter 40 Love Equals CommunicationChapter 41 Becoming UndeadPart 42 Chapter 8. Communication: Infinite ReturnChapter 43 Figuring It All OutChapter 44 The Dialectics of (the Study of) CommunicationChapter 45 Communication Being SuccessfulChapter 46 For the Time and Space Being

This is a profound and even revolutionary treatise that will challenge all those disciplines centrally or marginally concerned with discourse. The range of knowledge drawn upon to make the book's argument is simply breathtaking. Scholars in communication, anthropology, linguistics, psychology, sociology and cultural studies must read this absolutely new and refreshing philosophy of discourse. Without doubt, this book advances the human sciences.