ABSTRACT
Communication is one of the most ordinary of human practices – people talk, type, and text their way through everyday life. Communication is also an extraordinary resource for public deliberation about the ends and means of various kinds of community, increasingly from the local to the global level. Questions of communication and justice constitute an intersection of classical philosophy and modern communication studies. Communication offers the most generic resource for raising and addressing all these questions – in specialized sciences, public media, and in the interchange between public, private, and professional communications. Climate change – how to understand it, what to do about it – places communication in long perspectives of natural evolution and human history. In one sense, philosophy had retreated, first from the objects of knowledge and into the human subject as a precondition of knowledge, and next into the formal vehicles that might reunite the two sides of the philosophical equation.
