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- Dialogic Moments: From Soul Talks to Talk Radio in Israeli Culture
- Book
- 2004
- Published by: Wayne State University Press
- Series: Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
summary
The vision of communication as authentic dialogue, as the mutual communion of souls, has animated a great many twentieth century discussions of language and communication, both in scholarly writings and in various forms and contexts of popular culture. In its various manifestations, this communicative utopia has identified dialogue or conversation as a locus of authenticity of both individuals and groups. This study traces the ways in which this utopian vision of communication has played itself out in the particular context of Israeli society through the twentieth century, encapsulating central trends in the evolving Israeli cultural conversation over the years. In this sense, it is a historically-situated study of the cultural fluctuations of a given society in all its particularity. In another sense, however, it seeks to offer a more general statement about the culturally constructed nature of the quest for authenticity as a project of modernity by focusing on conceptions of communication and language as its quintessential loci.”
—From the Introduction by Tamar Katriel
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 2-5
- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-viii
- Conclusion: Writing against the Text
- pp. 325-338
- References
- pp. 363-378
- Back Cover
- p. 394
Additional Information
ISBN
9780814337509
Related ISBN(s)
9780814327746
MARC Record
OCLC
643945352
Pages
402
Launched on MUSE
2013-05-20
Language
English
Open Access
No