Speech, Writing and Media Education

Abstract

Expansion of media in the sphere of education makes essential and radical changes in the educational process. The author of the article emphasizes that the orientation of these changes is expressed in the domination of an image over a word. In this general movement from a word to image there is an intermediate stage establishing domination of an oral word over written one, domination of phonocentrism (media centrism) over logocentrism. Traditionally the philosophy concentrates at work with written sources, and the speech priority over a written word is perceived as incompatible with studying of philosophy in general. The author insists that genetically the philosophy is not connected with logocentrism
because Platon was convinced that philosophy is possible only by means of speech – a direct expression of movements of soul. Any intermediate links between soul and speech including writing are an obstacle for philosophy. In modern philosophy, for example, in the philosophy of J. Derrida, not the writing, but the speech is capable to transmit personal mental experience. The question which media raise for philosophy today is a question of as far as mediation of the writing is necessary for the existence of the philosophy and in what measure the speech priority over writing promotes philosophy to uncover its own premises.