Discourse as Care: A Phenomenological Consideration of Spatiality and Temporality
Author: Anton C.1
Source: Human Studies, Volume 25, Number 2, 2002 , pp. 185-205(21)
Publisher: Springer
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Abstract:
Scholars increasingly recognize that discourse is not a standing collection of representations for pre-existing thoughts and/or things in a pre-existing world. Still, many obstacles remain, and these seem to be inseparable from contemporary common-sense. When we ask about the nature of discourse, we are, ultimately, asking about the nature of world, the nature of the body, and also, there must be, if only tacitly, an account of space and time. Discourse, I would suggest, is a mode of evaluative praxis, a way of articulately “being-concerned-with-others.” But discourse is not only a finely nuanced praxis, or a sophisticated mode of cooperative action. Its powers for spatializing and temporalizing include predication in their peculiar kind of care. In general, as implying a concernful -being-with-others-being-toward-world, discourse is an intentional nexus whose capacities for spatializing and temporalizing make-room for those situations in which we find ourselves thrown, projected, and concernfully stretching along.
Language: English
Document Type: Regular paper
Affiliations: 1: 1 Campus Drive, 241 Lake Superior Hall, School of Communications, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI 49401-9403, USA E-mail: antonc@gvsu.edu
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