Frank J. Macke, The Experience of Human Communication: Body, Flesh, and Relationship

Though it’s less than a half-century old, the field of communication studies on American campuses has an established discourse and orthodoxy in its program. Mathematicians Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver’s (1949) book The Mathematical Theory of Communication offers a highly scientific and structured process of communication that has been “the” accepted model in communication studies for several years. In The Experience of Human Communication: Body, Flesh, and Relationship, author Frank J. Macke offers a very different concept of human communicative experience, one that breaks away from the scientific and intellectual, and explores the philosophical, epistemological, and spiritual.