The Global World and its Manifold Faces: Otherness as the Basis of Communication

ISBN-13: 9783034347280 / Angielski

Susan Petrilli; Augusto Ponzio; Susan Petrilli

Opis

With respect to the prevalently monological character of the global world order, this book aims to show that different worlds are possible on the condition that we develop a critical linguistic consciousness. This means to recover otherness at the basis of communication, therefore the disposition to dialogue, difference, hospitality.

Spis treści

Contents: Language and Social Reproduction - The Critique of Glottocentricism, European Signatures -
Translation as the Life of Signs - Communication and Otherness in Philosophy of Language - Significs and Semioethics. Educating for Meaning and Value - Perception and Understanding in the Era of Global Communication - Humanism Questioned. The Gift in and Beyond Exchange - The Self: Its Limits and Potentialities - Two Assumptions in Legal Discourse: Answering for Self and Telling the Truth - Identity to Alterity, a Look through Literary Writing - Misunderstanding in Understanding.

O autorze

Susan Petrilli, Professor of Philosophy and Theory of Languages, University of Bari, Aldo Moro, Italy, Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide, South Australia, 7th Sebeok Fellow, Semiotic Society of America, has published many books and essays as author, editor and translator presenting, among others, Peirce, Welby,
Bakhtin, Levinas, Morris and Sebeok. She directs various book series and is member of the advisory board of several international journals.