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Boxing Plato's Shadow : An Introduction to the Study of Human Communication

ISBN: 9780072483901 | 0072483903
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 9/5/2003

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SummaryTable of Contents
Designed to introduce students to the academic discipline of Communication, this text describes the scope and methods of communication studies, and sketches its history from the work of the early sophists to contemporary research efforts.Boxing Plato's Shadowhelps explain why, despite its long and venerable history of scholarly endeavor, Communication continues to struggle for recognition of its legitimate place in the academy. Throughout, the authors emphasize the field's durability over more than two millennia and the merits of multiple syste... MORE

Chapter 1. The Beginning of Communication Study

The Beginning of Communication Study, A Market for Communication Knowledge and Skill, The Sophists, Plato's Shadow, Aristotle's Resolution, Boxing Plato's Shadow, Contributions of Plato and Socrates to the Study of Communication

Chapter 2. Communication Study from Aristotle's Time to the 20th Century

Rhetoric in Egypt and Rome, Rhetoric in Christian Europe, The Contribution of the Moors, Humanism, the Renaissance and the Printing Press, The Enlightenment and the Modern ... MORE



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