Philosophies of Communication: Implications for Everyday Experience

How do our ethics, particularly our ethics about communication, shape our communication? Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the contributors of these eight essays build from classical critical assessment of oration and current understanding of how philosophy, rhetoric and ethics work together to create communication. They consider the ethics of the schadenfreude, political communication and celebrity advocacy, ethical dialog in the classroom, narrative identity and public memory (with Morocco as a case study), constructive rhetorical approaches to contemporary public relations practice, narratives in communications practices of interpretation for the ethical deliberation of contentious organizations, a unity of contraries within interpersonal communications, and the engagement of the rhetorical consciousness in an organization for dynamic communication exchange. Annotation 穢2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)