Paddy Scannell - Love and Communication

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2 Title Page Love and Communication Paddy Scannell polity

3 Copyright Copyright © Paddy Scannell 2021 The right of Paddy Scannell to be identified as Author of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published in 2021 by Polity Press Polity Press 65 Bridge Street Cambridge CB2 1UR, UK Polity Press 101 Station Landing Suite 300 Medford, MA 02155, USA All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purpose of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4754-8 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Scannell, Paddy, author. Title: Love and communication / Paddy Scannell. Description: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references. | Summary: “An intriguing philosophical inquiry into the connection between communication, religion and love”--Provided by publisher. Identifiers: LCCN 2020055611 (print) | LCCN 2020055612 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509547524 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509547531 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509547548 (epub) | ISBN 9781509549207 (pdf) Subjects: LCSH: Communication--Philosophy. | Communication--Social aspects. | Communication--Religious aspects. | Love. Classification: LCC P91 .S296 2021 (print) | LCC P91 (ebook) | DDC 302.201--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020055611 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020055612 The publisher has used its best endeavours to ensure that the URLs for external websites referred to in this book are correct and active at the time of going to press. However, the publisher has no responsibility for the websites and can make no guarantee that a site will remain live or that the content is or will remain appropriate. Every effort has been made to trace all copyright holders, but if any have been overlooked the publisher will be pleased to include any necessary credits in any subsequent reprint or edition. For further information on Polity, visit our website: politybooks.com

4 Introduction Introduction This is the final volume in a trilogy that I planned years ago, as I worked out the books I wanted to write. And I should say (it seemed obvious then, and I did not need to mention it) that I meant academic books about the field I worked in: communication or media studies. The first, Media and Communication (Scannell 2020 [2007]) was a textbook pitched at advanced undergraduate and graduate students, in which I laid out the academic development of the field itself in the last century, in North America, the United Kingdom and (partially) Europe. I followed it with Television and the Meaning of “Live” (2014), written for colleagues as an historically informed theoretical account of live television. Subsequently, as time and I were getting on a bit, I retired from academic life and began to think about the final book I proposed, back in 2007, in the preface to the first book. Each stands on its own legs, and is independent of the others. But if you were to read them all (I’m not saying you should), you would see there is a continuum to them. Love and Communication was the title I came up with for this final volume long before I ever got round to writing it. I knew that I wanted to write about this at least twenty years ago, but when I eventually started work on it, both the world and I had changed, and I found myself writing something rather different from what I first intended. There is a time for everything, as Ecclesiastes and others – Karl Ove Knausgaard (2004) for instance, point out – and I instinctively felt that love and communication were matters best left until my academic career was over.

5 Part I Talk and Communication, Writing and Language 1 The Still Face Experiment 2 Talk and Writing 3 The Wonder of the World

6 Part II Miracles 4 Heidegger’s Teacup 5 Miracles 6 Love and Communication

7 Coda

8 References

9 End User License Agreement

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Paddy Scannell

polity

Copyright © Paddy Scannell 2021

The right of Paddy Scannell to be identified as Author of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

First published in 2021 by Polity Press

Polity Press

65 Bridge Street

Cambridge CB2 1UR, UK

Polity Press

101 Station Landing

Suite 300

Medford, MA 02155, USA

All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purpose of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher.

ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4754-8

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Scannell, Paddy, author.

Title: Love and communication / Paddy Scannell.

Description: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references. | Summary: “An intriguing philosophical inquiry into the connection between communication, religion and love”--Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020055611 (print) | LCCN 2020055612 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509547524 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509547531 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509547548 (epub) | ISBN 9781509549207 (pdf)

Subjects: LCSH: Communication--Philosophy. | Communication--Social aspects. | Communication--Religious aspects. | Love.

Classification: LCC P91 .S296 2021 (print) | LCC P91 (ebook) | DDC 302.201--dc23