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Introduction: The Problem of Communication | |
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The Historicity of Communication | |
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The Varied Senses of "Communication" | |
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Sorting Theoretical Debates in (and via) the 1920s | |
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Technical and Therapeutic Discourses after World War II | |
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Dialogue and Dissemination | |
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Dialogue and Eros in the Phaedrus | |
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Dissemination in the Synoptic Gospels | |
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History of an Error: The Spiritualist Tradition | |
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Christian Sources | |
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From Matter to Mind: "Communication" in the Seventeenth Century | |
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Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism | |
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Toward a More Robust Vision of spirit: Hegel, Marx, and Kierkegaard | |
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Hegel on Recognition | |
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Marx (versus Locke) on Money | |
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Kierkegaard's Incognitos | |
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Phantasms of the Living, Dialogues with the Dead | |
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Recording and Transmission | |
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Hermeneutics as Communication with the Dead | |
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Dead Letters | |
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The Quest for Authentic Connection, or Bridging the Chasm | |
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The Interpersonal Walls of Idealism | |
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Fraud or Contact? James on Psychical Research | |
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Reach Out and Touch Someone: The Telephonic Uncanny | |
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Radio: Broadcasting as Dissemination (and Dialogue) | |
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Machines, Animals, and Aliens: Horizons of Incommunicability | |
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The Turing Test and the Insuperability of Eros | |
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Animals and Empathy with the Inhuman | |
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Communication with Aliens | |
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Conclusion: A Squeeze of the Hand | |
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The Gaps of Which Communication Is Made | |
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The Privilege of the Receiver | |
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The Dark Side of Communication | |
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The Irreducibility of Touch and Time | |
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Extracts (Supplied by a Sub-sublibrarian) | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Index | |