Human Image in Helmuth Plessner, Pierre Bourdieu, and Psychocentric Culture

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

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart One: Disembodied Images of the Human PersonChapter 1: Problematics of Communication in Signifying the Human PersonChapter 2: A Crisis of Communication in the Human Sciences Then and NowChapter 3: Where It Hurts: Pathologizing Everyday Life in Psychocentric Culture Part Two: Embodied Images of the Human PersonChapter 4: Helmuth Plessner’s Image of Embodied CommunicationChapter 5: Constructing a New Image of the Human Person: Bourdieu and Plessner on Psychological PrecarityChapter 6: Being Human in Communication BibliographyAbout the Author

This book is a major contribution to our current understanding of the practical combination of philosophy and communicology as an applied human science. An exceptionally well researched critique of the regrettable consilience and hypostatization found in post-positive '“cognitive science,”'especially the counterfeit and misguided beliefs that (1) psychopathology is an organic '“brain”' problem and that (2) '“Big Pharma”' provides the solution of psychopharmacology. An excellent introduction to the synergism of phenomenology, semiotics, and communication science grounded in the discourse model of human embodied speaking and listening. A '“must read”' for students of applied communication and philosophy. Best of all, the author gives a readable explication of the failed machine metaphor of '“information theory”' in computers, and, replaces it with the practical experience of '“communication theory”' as the living voice of human culture.”