Observations on Transaction: A Discussion of Watzlawick's Second Axiom

ISBN-13: 9783631394588 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 150 str.

Gerhard Gelbmann

Opis

This book deals with two aspects of interpersonal communication the content aspect and the relationship aspect. Concepts like meta-communication are analysed, as well as reductionism, social system or aspect. The study criticizes approaches toward a Philosophy of Communication which start from notions like Ordinary Language or Language Instinct or Communication as Oriented Toward (Mutal) Understanding. This essay gives a vivid, sometimes witty and polemical discussion of several points linked to themes like idealisation or systemic concept of person, and it proposes an attempt to base a conception of communication on the constructivist s understanding of the term of observation. The way how a comprehension of transaction is shaped proves to be useful for understanding emotions as an element of human life and social interaction."

Spis treści

Contents: Content aspect - Relationship aspect - Object-information - Meta-information - Meta-communication - Linguistic reductionism - Transaction - Auto-transaction - Aspectation (seeing as) - Idealization - Person as semiotic subject - Social system - Critique of ordinary language.

O autorze

The Author: Gerhard Gelbmann, born 1968 in Vienna (Austria), studied Philosophy at the University of Vienna and at the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen (Norway). His doctoral dissertation was devoted to a historical and systematic reconstruction of the Pragmatic Theory of Communication by G. Bateson, P. Watzlawick et al., including research on its background and roots in the development of Cybernetics and in Wittgenstein's thinking. The author's main intrests centre around Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Psychology, and Semiotics.