Echo: Or, on the Origin of Words

Year 2018, Volume: 5 Issue: 1 - Philosophy of Communication, 1 - 14, 15.06.2018

Garnet C. Butchart

https://doi.org/10.17572/mj2018.1.114

Abstract

It is within the context of thinking about the phenomenology and semiotics of the human experience of the world that this article explores the twin topics of sound and listening. The discussion is informed by Jean-Luc Nancy’s recent volume Listening, a philosophy of sound that, I argue, raises communication as a question of listening. The first part of the article draws out this question from Nancy. The second part connects it to Werner Hamacher’s examination of the word as a gift of Being (Heidegger), which resonates, or can be heard, I argue, as an echo of being when taken up in communication. The perspectives on listening, word, and echo advanced in the article demonstrate how human communication may be understood philosophically, rather than theoretically, as a reversible semiotic and phenomenological relation.

Keywords

philosophy of communication, Nancy, listening, echo, language

Yankı: Veya Sözcüklerin Kökeni Üzerine

Abstract

Bu makale, ses ve dinleme konularını, insanın dünyaya dair deneyiminin fenomenolojisi ve semiyotiği bağlamında incelemektedir. Bu tartışma, Jean-Luc Nancy’nin, iletişimi bir dinleme meselesi olarak gündeme getirdiğini savunduğum, bir ses felsefesi olan Listening adlı önceki bir çalışmasından hareketle oluşturulmuştur. Makalenin ilk kısmı, bu tartışmayı Nancy’den yola çıkarak yürütmektedir. İkinci kısım ise söz konusu tartışmayı, Werner Hamacher’in iletişimde ele alındığında varlığın bir yankısı olarak yankılandığını veya duyulabildiğini savunduğum sözcüğü, Varlık’ın bir armağanı (Heidegger) olarak, incelemesine bağlamaktadır. Makalede dinleme, sözcük ve yankı üzerine geliştirilen perspektifler, insan iletişiminin teorik olandan ziyade felsefi bir biçimde, tersine çevrilebilir bir semiyotik ve fenomenolojik ilişki olarak nasıl anlaşılabileceğini göstermektedir.

Keywords

iletişim felsefesi, Nancy, dinleme, yankı, dil

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