Communication: The Living End

New York: Philosophical Library, 1988. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. First edition. Inscribed, signed, and dated by author on front endpaper ('To Cynthia, John A. Ciampa, '97'). Near fine in very good jacket. Jacket rubbed, jacket spine slightly faded. 1988 Hard Cover. 371 pp. The jacket blurb is a fun read in the context of today's absolute onslaught of connectivity: "Never have there been so many ways to communicate so many messages to so many different people. Does that result in more communication? Do we need more communication? If so what kind and with whom? TV? Phone? Interactive Media? Live encounters? Books? The basic communication urge to reach out can find a channel in any of the forms classified in this book. Seeing them all in formation will generate an interest in how the forms affect each other and the content they carry and how all of that divides our attention and more or less satisfies the human need to connect. While this book does not purport to provide hard and fast rules that govern this complex human activity, it does provide original insights, theories, and conceptual tools for each reader to deal with his/her own world of communication options.