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Book SynopsisPhilosophy of Communication Ethics is a unique and timely contribution to the study of communication ethics. This series of essays articulates unequivocally the intimate connection between philosophy of communication and communication ethics. This scholarly volume assumes that there is a multiplicity of communication ethics. What distinguishes one communication ethic from another is the philosophy of communication in which a particular ethic is grounded. Philosophy of communication is the core ingredient for understanding the importance of and the difference between and among communication ethics. The position assumed by this collection is consistent with Alasdair MacIntyre’s insights on ethics. In A Short History of Ethics, he begins with one principal assertion—philosophy is subversive. If one cannot think philosophically, one cannot question taken-for-granted assumptions. In the case of communication ethics, to fail to think philosophically is to miss the bias, prejudice, and assumptions that constitute a given communication ethic.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Section I: Otherness: Place and Space Chapter 1: The Pantheism Controversy: Rhetoric, Enlightenment, and Memory by G. L. Ercolini Chapter 2: A Rhetoric of Sentiment: The House the Scots Built by Ronald C. Arnett Chapter 3: Before the One and the Other: Ethico-Political Communication and Community by Pat J. Gehrke Chapter 4: Ethics, Kairos, & Akroasis: An Essay on Time and Relation by Lisbeth Lipari Section II: Otherness and Justice Chapter 5: Communication, Diversity, and Ethics in Higher Education by Brenda J. Allen Chapter 6: Tymieniecka’s Benevolent Sentiment as Ground for Communication Ethics: Juliette Hampton Morgan’s Advocacy for Racial Justice by Pat Arneson Chapter 7: The Ethical Challenges of Friendship in Interpersonal and Mexico-US Relations: A Case Study of The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada by Austin S. Babrow and Lindsey M. Rose Chapter 8: Resolutions of Regret: The Other in the Evolution of a State Apology for Slavery by John B. Hatch Chapter 9: Public Memory of Christopher Isherwood’s Novel, A Single Man: Communication Ethics, Social Differences, and Alterity in Media Portrayals of Homosexuality by Lester C. Olson Section III: Otherness and Contextual Divergence Chapter 10: Organization as Other: Professional Civility as Communicative Care for Institutions by Janie M. Harden Fritz Chapter 11: An Example of the Plurality of Levels of Communication Ethics Analysis in a Newspaper Article by Alain Létourneau Chapter 12: Leisure and the Other: Philosophy and Communication Ethics by Annette M. Holba Chapter 13: Saving the Nation: Redemptive Ethos and the Moral Figure of the Refugee by Andreea Deciu Ritivoi Chapter 14: Communicology and the Ethics of Selfhood under the Regime of Antidepressant Medicine by Isaac E. Catt Afterword Machiavelli’s Question Mark and the Problem of Ethical Communication by Gerard A. Hauser Bibliography About the Contributors
