Background
Peters grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts, pursued studies at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Utah, where he also earned his Master of Arts
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Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition by John Durham Peters (2005-04-15)
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Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition
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Courting the Abyss updates the philosophy of free expression for a world that is very different from the one in which it originated. The notion that a free society should allow Klansmen, neo-Nazis, sundry extremists, and pornographers to spread their doctrines as freely as everyone else has come increasingly under fire. At the same time, in the wake of 9/11, the Right and the Left continue to wage war over the utility of an absolute vision of free speech in a time of increased national security. Courting the Abyss revisits the tangled history of free speech, finding resolutions to these debates hidden at the very roots of the liberal tradition. A mesmerizing account of the role of public communication in the Anglo-American world, Courting the Abyss shows that liberty's earliest advocates recognized its fraternal relationship with wickedness and evil. While we understand freedom of expression to mean "anything goes," John Durham Peters asks why its advocates so often celebrate a sojourn in hell and the overcoming of suffering. He directs us to such well-known sources as the prose and poetry of John Milton and the political and philosophical theory of John Locke, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., as well as lesser-known sources such as the theology of Paul of Tarsus. In various ways they all, he shows, envisioned an attitude of self-mastery or self-transcendence as a response to the inevitable dangers of free speech, a troubled legacy that continues to inform ruling norms about knowledge, ethical responsibility, and democracy today. A world of gigabytes, undiminished religious passion, and relentless scientific discovery calls for a fresh account of liberty that recognizes its risk and its splendor. Instead of celebrating noxious doctrine as proof of society's robustness, Courting the Abyss invites us to rethink public communication today by looking more deeply into the unfathomable mystery of liberty and evil.
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The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media
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When we speak of clouds these days, it is as likely that we mean data clouds or network clouds as cumulus or stratus. In their sharing of the term, both kinds of clouds reveal an essential truth: that the natural world and the technological world are not so distinct. In The Marvelous Clouds, John Durham Peters argues that though we often think of media as environments, the reverse is just as true—environments are media. Peters defines media expansively as elements that compose the human world. Drawing from ideas implicit in media philosophy, Peters argues that media are more than carriers of messages: they are the very infrastructures combining nature and culture that allow human life to thrive. Through an encyclopedic array of examples from the oceans to the skies, The Marvelous Clouds reveals the long prehistory of so-called new media. Digital media, Peters argues, are an extension of early practices tied to the establishment of civilization such as mastering fire, building calendars, reading the stars, creating language, and establishing religions. New media do not take us into uncharted waters, but rather confront us with the deepest and oldest questions of society and ecology: how to manage the relations people have with themselves, others, and the natural world. A wide-ranging meditation on the many means we have employed to cope with the struggles of existence—from navigation to farming, meteorology to Google—The Marvelous Clouds shows how media lie at the very heart of our interactions with the world around us. Peters’s book will not only change how we think about media but provide a new appreciation for the day-to-day foundations of life on earth that we so often take for granted.
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John Peters
Edit Profilehistorian professor of Communication Studies
Education
He received a Doctor of Philosophy in Communication Theory and Research from Stanford University in 1986 before accepting a faculty appointment at the University of Iowa.
Career
A media historian and social theorist, he is probably best known for his first book Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication which traces out broad historical, philosophical, religious, cultural, legal, and technological contexts for the study of communication. He has held fellowships with the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Foundation, and the Leverhulme Trust. in Speech Communication. In chapter one of Speaking Into Thin Air, Peters (1999) compares two forms of communication to find out which one is more effective.
Even though dialogue tends to be viewed as the better means of communications, Peters believes that it can be cruel and destructive.
Dissemination is fair because unlike dialogue it does not force individuals to understand certain ideas. The lack of interaction provided by dissemination leaves the audience to interpret meaning themselves.
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Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition
( Courting the Abyss updates the philosophy of free expre...)
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The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media
( When we speak of clouds these days, it is as likely tha...)
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Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition by John Durham Peters (2005-04-15)
(Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)
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Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media The Marvelous Clouds (Hardback) - Common
(New)
- By John Durham Peters - The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media (2015-07-04) Hardcover
- The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media by Peters, John Durham(June 19, 2015) Hardcover
- The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media by John Durham Peters (2015-06-19)
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Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition
