"Dialogic Ethics offers an impressionistic picture of the diversity of perspectives on this topic. Daily we witness local, regional, national, and international disputes, each propelled by contention over what is and should be the good propelling communicative direction and action. Communication ethics understood as an answer to problems often creates them. If we understand communication ethics as a good protected and promoted by a given set of communicators, we can understand how acts of colonialism and totalitarianism could move forward, legitimized by the assumption that 'I am right.' This volume eschews such a presupposition, recognizing that we live in a time of narrative and virtue contention. We dwell in an era where the one answer is more often dangerous than correct"--.

• Dialogic Ethics
• Editorial page
• Title page
• LCC data
• Table of contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Ethics in dialogue
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. A brief survey of the history of ethical studies
  • 3. The universal basis: Ethics as an inborn property of human ‘nature’
  • 4. From the universal to the particular: Specialization of ethics by ‘culture’
  • 5. Ideals and ‘practicability’
  • 6. ‘Interests’ of the masters of mankind
  • 7. Strategies of cooperation versus confrontation
  • 8. Outlook
  • References
• Impassible peace
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Dreaming the enemy
    • 2.1 Dreamwork that does not speak
    • 2.2 A figural analysis
  • 3. Implications for dialogical ethics
  • References
• Proposal for a typology of listening markers and listening request markers
  • 1. Literature review
  • 2. The hearing/listening/hearing span
  • 3. Fieldwork
  • 4. Designing a typology
  • 5. Data analysis
    • 5.1 Listening markers
      • 5.1.1 Attentive listening markers
      • 5.1.2 Involved listening markers
      • 5.1.3 Poor and non-listening markers
    • 5.2 Listening requests
      • 5.2.1 Listening solicitation markers
      • 5.2.2 Markers of inducing to listen
      • 5.2.3 Injunctions to listen
  • 6. Discussion
  • References
• The ethics of intercultural dialogue
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Intercultural dialogue as a discursive way of coming to terms with the ‘difficult past’
  • 3. Research perspective and scope
  • 4. The discourse of JPII’s reconciliation letters
    • 4.1 The discourse of empowerment in JPII’s reconciliation letters: E dimension
    • 4.2 The discourse of empowerment in JPII’s reconciliation letters: C dimension
    • 4.3 The discourse of empowerment in JPII’s reconciliation letters: R dimension
    • 4.4 The discourse of recognition in JPII’s reconciliation letters: The integration of the E-C-R dimensions of the human world
  • 5. Conclusions
  • References
• Differing versions of dialogic aptitude
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Network participatory governance
  • 3. Dewey’s pragmatism
  • 4. Reading Habermas with Dewey in mind
  • 5. A dialogical applied ethics
  • 6. Bakhtin’s contribution
  • 7. Discussing this theoretical ensemble in relationship with the situational case
  • 8. Conclusion
  • References
• An interlocutory logic approach of a case of professional ethics
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. From predictive medicine consultation to predictive genetic consultation for HD
    • 2.1 Predictive medicine consultation
    • 2.2 The predictive genetic consultation of Huntington’s disease
  • 3. Interlocutory logic
  • 4. The process that leads Mrs. P. to request the test
    • 4.1 The triggering event of Mrs. P.’s decision
      • 4.1.1 The status of P25-P27 in the continuation of the interview with the geneticist
      • 4.1.2 The status of P25-P27 in the interview with the psychologist
  • 5. The decision-making of Mrs. P.
    • 5.1 The decision tree of Mrs. P.
    • 5.2 The refusal to hear
  • 6. Conclusion
    • 6.1 What type of dialogue?
      • 6.1.1 A dialogal-dialogic interaction oriented towards intercomprehension
      • 6.1.2 A practical deliberation
      • 6.1.3 A verbal argumentative interaction
    • 6.2 What is the outcome in the case of Mrs. P.?
  • References
• Dialogue and ethics in the library
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The library’s evolving landscape
  • 3. Philosophy of communication perspective
  • 4. Umberto Eco: Library as dialogic sites for cultural engagement
  • 5. Implications for dialogic ethics
  • References
• Agents of awakening
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The cultural practice of dialogue
  • 3. Ventriloquism and the question of agency
  • 4. Nature’s agents of awakening in Zen and beyond
    • 4.1 Streams and rivers
    • 4.2 Trees
  • References
• The rhetoric of discourse
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Axiology: Value categories
  • 3. Discourse: Dialogue categories
  • 4. Dialogic axiology: A communicology
    • 4.1 Value categories: Morality in the self
    • 4.2 Value categories: Ethics in the other
    • 4.3 Value categories: Politics between the self and other
    • 4.4 Value categories: Aesthetics in events and objects
    • 4.5 Value categories: Summarizing chiasm values
  • References
• Fragments, limbs, and dreadful accidents
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Fragments
  • 3. Dreadful accidents
  • 4. Limbs
  • 5. Groundwork for an ecological dialogic in a world of wounds
  • References
• Dialogic ethics
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Macro advice from history
  • 3. A good name no more
  • 4. A pragmatic turn to hope
    • 4.1 Background: A unity of contraries
    • 4.2 Foreground: Proper names
    • 4.3 Dialogic ethics: The language of responsive gestalt
  • References
• Subject index