Dialogic civility in a cynical age : community, hope, and interpersonal relationships / Ronald C. Arnett and Pat Arneson ; foreword by Julia T. Wood.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:SUNY series in communication studies.
Main Author: Arnett, Ronald C., 1952-
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors: Arneson, Pat, 1961-
Language:English
Published: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, [1999], ©1999.
Series:SUNY series in communication studies.
Subjects:
Electronic books.
Interpersonal communication.
Interpersonal relations.
Civil society.
Cynicism.
Genre:
Electronic books.
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Physical Description:xvii, 331 pages ; 23 cm.
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Interpersonal Praxis: From Communicative Crisis to Narrative Action
  • Introduction: Beginning the Conversation
  • Horizon of Significance
  • The Conceptual Key
  • Voices of Cynicism and Hope
  • Routine Cynicism
  • Interpersonal Suspicion
  • Language Disconnected from Action
  • Listening to Two Sides of Cynicism
  • Routine Cynicism as Debilitating
  • Cynicism as Survival Tool
  • The Wedding of Cynicism and Hope
  • Pain and Joy
  • Hope within Limits
  • Historicality and Presence
  • A Foundation for Communicative Change
  • Historicality
  • Missing the Historical Moment
  • Meeting the Historical Moment
  • Dialogic Limits
  • A Dialogic Perspective
  • A Practical Dialectic
  • Interpersonal Praxis as Historical Common Sense
  • Interpersonal Commonplaces
  • Common Ground: Interpersonal Narrative
  • Opening Narrative Structures
  • Narrative Background
  • From Metanarrative to Therapeutic Culture
  • Historical Mismatch--The Therapeutic Metaphor
  • An Overextended Metaphor
  • Walter Lippmann's Warning
  • A Narrative Ethic for Interpersonal Discourse
  • Interpersonal Voices
  • Narrative Decline: Interpersonal Dialogue and Self
  • Carl Rogers: A Voice of Pragmatic Optimism
  • Significance of Carl Rogers's Life and Practice
  • A Founding Voice
  • Scope of Carl Rogers's Influence
  • The Quiet Revolutionary
  • Communicative Focus
  • Historical Grounding
  • An Optimistic Listener
  • Central Concepts in Carl Rogers's Work
  • Self
  • Innate Wisdom of the Human Organism
  • Relationship
  • Historicality and Dialogic Civility.