Abstract

A critical inquiry of the philosophical fundamentals in a pre-internet Age of the 1960ies and 1970ies. The monograph starts with the essentials of Chomsky's communication theory, makes a critical assessment on the social and psychological turns of body language (considering social interactionism and nonverbal communication theories of the Palo Alto "invisible college") and brings out relevant analytic points of Kierkegaard's, Nietzsche's, Heidegger's and Jasper's existential philosophy (as a back to the future approach in the last chapter). It prepares the framework and the preriquisites of a global 'Age of Access'.