Questioning the Rhetorical Eclipse of Philosophical Leisure: Ad Colloquium Conferendum

Human communication in our postmodern era has degenerated into phatic communication. Phatic communication, appropriate in some circumstances, used unreflectively limits the ability for the development of healthy, idea-laden conversation. The phatic nature of communication represents a loss of human interest in human communication. Philosophical leisure can help to recapture the element of human interest in conversation, which recuperates an over-abundance of phaticity in human communication. Recuperation of communication occurs when ideas drive conversation. Philosophical leisure can help human beings to find substance for those ideas. This study considers how philosophical leisure can enrich human communication.

Name thesis:degree_name

PhD

Level thesis:degree_level

Immediate Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communication and Rhetorical Studies

Year dc:date.available

2005

Author dc:creator

• Holba, Annette M.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Pat Arneson
• Richard H. Thames
• Ronald C. Arnett

• aesthetics
• communication eclipse
• communicative aesthetics
• consummation
• Leisure
• phatic communication
• philosophical leisure
• social

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/658

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dsc.duq.edu:etd-1674