1. A blank sheet of paper: The phenomenological foundation of comparative media theory.
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Angus, Ian
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COMMUNICATIONS research , *COMMUNICATION education , *SOCIOLOGY , *SOCIAL sciences , *PHILOSOPHY & science , *HUMANITIES - Abstract
The article focuses on the relevance of communication studies for human sciences. Communication studies is often proposed as a synthetic approach to the human sciences outright, an interdisciplinary inquiry capable of linking the researches of specialized human sciences to the philosophical foundations of the project of human scientific inquiry itself. The author says that from the standpoint of the relation between philosophy and the human sciences, the constitution of perception, institutions and thought by media of communication is the thesis proper to communication studies, the thesis from which its larger significance derives. According to the author, by describing the precise point at which a theory of communication diverges from a theory of scientific meaning, it is possible to note a significant convergence between phenomenology and a Marxist critique of a semiotic theory of language.
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- 1994
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