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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 | |