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This book focuses on what pragmatism tells us about the nature and function of communication. Its goals are to recover a singular voice of pragmatism, and to identify and develop alternative methods and aims for the philosophy of communication. It shows how pragmatism assumes and proposes a philosophy of communication that can lead to a reconceptualization of contemporary communication studies.
The authors explore recurrent themes in the tradition's various classical extensions that commend pragmatism as a methodology for social change and human development. They show that pragmatism fosters inquiry and pluralism by rejecting strategies for closure, questioning prevailing metanarratives, and encouraging the development of new habits of conduct through a critical practice that is fundamentally self-reflective.
Contributors to this volume include Mitchell Aboulafia, Thomas Alexander, Arthur Bochner and Joanne Waugh, Isaac Catt, Vincent Colapietro, Janet Horne, Richard Lanigan, Frank Macke, Mick Presnell, Charlene Haddock Seigfried, and Leonard Shyles.
"This collection supplies us with a nicely balanced set of perspectives—neither dismissive nor adulatory. In the crush of contemporaneity, it's good to have the historical framework reconstructed. And the emphasis on communication creates valuable insight." — Bruce Wilshire, Rutgers University
I. Introduction
1. The Voice of Pragmatism in Contemporary Philosophy of Communication
Lenore Langsdorf and Andrew R. Smith
II. The Logic of Communication
2. Immediacy, Opposition, and Mediation: Peirce on Irreducible Aspects of the Communicative Process
Vincent M. Colapietro
3. From Enthymeme to Abduction: The Classical Law of Logic and the Postmodern Rule of Rhetoric
Richard L. Lanigan
4. On Ethnocentric Truth and Pragmatic Justice
Andrew R. Smith and Leonard Shyles
III. The Ends of Communication
5. The "Cash-Value" of Communication: An Interpretation of William James
Isaac E. Catt
6. Devising Ends Worth Striving For: William James and the Reconstruction of Philosophy
Charlene Haddock Seigfried
IV. The Process of Communication
7. John Dewey and the Roots of Democratic Imagination
Thomas M. Alexander
8. Pragmatism Reconsidered: John Dewey and Michel Foucault on the Consequences of Inquiry
Frank J. Macke
V. The Effects of Communication
9. George Herbert Mead and the Many Voices of Universality
Mitchell Aboulafia
10. Philosophy of Language and Philosophy of Communication: Poiesis and Praxis in Classical Pragmatism
Lenore Langsdorf
VI. Neopragmatism and Communication
11. Talking-With as a Model for Writing-About: Implications of Rortyean Pragmatism
Arthur P. Bochner and Joanne B. Waugh
12. Changing the Subject: Rorty and Contemporary Rhetorical Theory
Janet S. Horne
13. Icons, Fragments, and Ironists: Richard Rorty and Contemporary Rhetorical Criticism
Mick Presnell
Notes
Contributors
Name Index
Subject Index