Dialogic Moments: From Soul Talks to Talk Radio in Israeli Culture

di Tamar Katriel (Autore)

Wayne State University Press, 2004

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.

• Autore: Tamar Katriel
• Editore: Wayne State University Press
• Collana: Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
• Anno: 2004
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 402 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 547 gr.
• EAN: 9780814327753

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