Description: Addressing a challenge and opportunity that is definitive of life in the 21st century, this book provides a range of possible solutions that serve to motivate and structure future research and debate around the concept of 'the other' in communication.
Brief description: Dieter Mersch is Professor of Aesthetics and Director of the Institute for Critical Theory at Zurich University of the Arts. He is the author of several books in German.
Review Quotes:
"Whenever philosophy speaks, it does so in response to the other whispering behind philosophical reason. In this volume, the contributors turn to look at the other face to face, demonstrating cogently how alterity--the uncanny otherness of the other--stands at the very foundation of our thinking and communicative practices. Contextually sensitive and historically informed, this collection provides us with an up-to-date guide for the communicatively perplexed." --Briankle G. Chang, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"This magnificent book is the scholarship of innovation as it ought to be done. Alterity is an ingenious framework for coming to grips with new information and communication technologies. The Changing Face of Alterity is not a collective of essays, but a coherent whole organized around an exceptional introduction out of which flow brilliant essays on research, theory, the history of ideas, and social science. This rigorous book establishes the future agenda, from human exceptionalism to posthuman theory and practice." --Clifford G. Christians, University of Illinois