The Helplessness of Communication (History of Spreading Thoughts)

Author: (USA) Peter Drucker, translated by He Daokuan
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: What we have before us is a book about the study of communication failures. Interestingly, the message it conveys is so wonderful. The Idea of Communicating, this refined and serious work, always sends a message to readers—to accept intellectual challenges and savor and absorb the profound common knowledge and innovative perspectives gradually unfolded by the author. The book explores communication, both in breadth and depth, leaving readers amazed. The voice it delivers is astonishing and highly popular. We are eager to hear his voice again. The theme of this book itself is quite strange. The author openly claims that communication is impossible. He asks us to abandon our illusions about communication and asserts, "I believe the task today is to abandon the dream of communication while retaining the benefits it inspires. We say that the idea of communication as the sharing of minds is not workable." He also says, "We can never communicate like angels, and this is a tragic fact, but also a fortunate fact." He studies the failures of communication, so he states, "Communication is contact between two minds through precise and flawless symbolic means."