Review of: Embodiment, Relation, Community: A Continental Philosophy of Communication, Garnet Butchart (2019) University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 199 pp., ISBN 978-0-27108-325-4, h/bk, $80.95.

The nature of communication can be theorized in many different ways, e.g. as ritual, storytelling, deliberation, rational argument, dissemination, articulation, translation, and even failure. In the present article communication is conceptualized as a (dialogic) process of conversation between the subject and the object as the Other; however, this conceptualization goes beyond its treatment as a simple reciprocal exchange of messages. First, a more nuanced and layered understanding of the role of the Other in communication is given; it is described what (...) it means to be existentially bound with the object and engaged with the Other in a conversation as a process of interpretation and signification. Secondly, the importance of time in this process is highlighted; it is argued that communication can be understood more adequately when treated as a process of temporalizing of meaning. And, thirdly, the aporia of communication as conversation is discussed; it is shown how intersubjectivity and reciprocity can be reified and abused. Overall, it is concluded that the nature of communication as a complex process of common human experience calls for other theoretical perspectives. (shrink)

RESUMENLa premisa que subyace a este artículo es que ninguna investigación racional puede ser puramente fenomenológica o puramente psicológica. Esta tesis, que se refleja en el propio título del artículo, está fundada en la naturaleza continua de la conciencia. Por otra parte, el presente artículo está fundamentado en las perspectivas de L. S. Vygotsky sobre la consciencia. Una cuidadosa comparación de los estudios fenomenológicos con la investigación psicolingüïstica basada en las ideas de Vygotsky revela muchos paralelismo significativos. un buen número (...) de conceptos fenomenológicos, tales como lso de "interiorización", "apropiazión" "preconsciente"," intencionalidad","significado vivido/hablado", "comprensión", etc...aparecen, como en un espejo en los trabajos psicolingüísticos bajo los mismos o diferentes nombres. De manera que, en cada caso sometido a discusión, hay un concepto fenomenológico y su "doble" psicolingüístico. PALABRAS CLAVEBYGOTSKY-FENOMENOLOGIA-PSICOLINGUISTICAABSTRACTThe underlying premise of this paper is taht no rational inquiry can be purely phenomenological or purely psychological. this thesis, wich is reflected in the title of the paper, is based on the continuous nature of consciousness. on the other hand, the present paper is grounded in L. S Vygotsky'2 persopectives on consciousness. A careful comparison of phenomeological studies with consciousness. A careful comparison of phenomenological studies with psycholinguistic research based on his ideas reveals many significant parallels. A lot of phenomenological concepts, such as "interiorization", "appropriation", "pre-conscious", "intentionaity", "lived/spoken meaning", "grasping", etc..appear, as if in a mirror, in psycholinguistic works, under different, or the same, names. So, in each case, under discussion there is a pheomenological concept and its psycholinguistic "double"KEYWORDSVYGOTSKY.PHENOMENOLOGY-PSICOLINGUISTICS. (shrink)

The present article focuses on listening conceptualized as an active process of perception, with no fixed boundaries, directly connected to thought, and highlighting the ethical underpinnings of communication. Overall, listening is discussed as the primary and authentic characteristic of being with a double movement – towards the Other and towards oneself. A close link between obedience and listening is emphasized, which is demonstrated by emplying the Russian equivalent of the verb ‘to obey’ and the peculiarities of its cases. The dynamic (...) nature of listening is also discussed in terms of metaphor (transfer based on similarity) and metonymy (transfer based on contiguity). It is argued that listening reveals the liminal and sacred nature of communication. (shrink)