Relevance and Irrelevance
Strassheim, Jan / Nasu, Hisashi
Relevance drives our actions and channels our attention, it shapes how we make sense of the world and communicate with each other. Irrelevance spreads a twilight which blurs the line between information we do not want to access and information we cannot access. In disciplines as diverse as philosophy, sociology, the information sciences and linguistics, "relevance" has been proposed as a key concept. This book is the first to bring together th...