Communicating Differences: Essays in Phenomenology and Communicative Praxis

by Lewis R. Gordon (Editor), Jacqueline M. Martinez

This uniquely interdisciplinary book brings together several active and influential voices in the fields of philosophy of communication and the social sciences. Contributors focus on the impact and limitations of poststructuralism in contemporary philosophy of communication by examining the implications of poststructural appeals to differences and what the editors call the redundancy thesis, the view that meaningful reality is socially constructed. This exciting work is sure to be of interest to scholars and students of philosophy, communication, sociology, linguistics, and semiotics.

160 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1999

About the author

Lewis Ricardo Gordon is an American philosopher who works in the areas of Africana philosophy, philosophy of human and life sciences, phenomenology, philosophy of existence, social and political theory, postcolonial thought, theories of race and racism, philosophies of liberation, aesthetics, philosophy of education, and philosophy of religion. He has written particularly extensively on race and racism, postcolonial phenomenology, Africana and black existentialism, and on the works and thought of W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon.