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The Human Image in Helmuth Plessner, Pierre Bourdieu, and Psychocentric Culture
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2023
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In The Human Image in Helmuth Plessner, Pierre Bourdieu, and Psychocentric Culture, Isaac E. Catt offers a unique criticism of naturalistic reductions of humans to animals, to neuro substrates and to DNA. Catt explores a new interpretation of Plessner and Bourdieu, revealing the combinatory logic of semiotic phenomenology in both and their common problematic of communication. Through an emergent synthesis of philosophical anthropology and communicology, this book provides a basis for criticism of the failed mechanistic medical model in psychiatry, a fresh argument for reconceptualizing psychiatry as a human science, and for construction of a new ecological image of communicative being. Throughout the book, alternative attempts to transcend dualisms such as cybernetics, anti-anthropocentrism, and biosemiotics are revealed to risk reification of the very objects of their analysis. Scholars of communication, semiotics, philosophy, psychiatry, cultural studies, mental distress, and psychology will find this book of particular interest.
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Edition
1/2023
Copyright Year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-1855-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-1856-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
224
Product Type
Monograph
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 4
Problematics of Communication in Signifying the Human Person No access
A Crisis of Communication in the Human Sciences Then and Now No access
Where It Hurts No access
Helmuth Plessner’s Image of Embodied Communication No access
Constructing a New Image of the Human Person No access
