Semioethics as Existential Dialogue

The Gift and Burden of Responsibility

Susan Petrilli, Susan Mancino (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-39431-2 (ISBN)

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This collection brings together perspectives on the interplay of communication, dialogue and responsibility, exploring communicative acts of disruption towards a social environment attuned to short-sighted individualism.

This collection brings together perspectives on the interplay of communication, dialogue, and responsibility, exploring communicative acts of disruption toward a social environment attuned to short-sighted individualism. Semioethics highlights the condition of inevitable entanglement with the other at the origin of sociality, which demands a response to the other based on listening and accountability.

The volume introduces readers to the theoretical foundations of semioethics, an emergent direction within sign and language studies which relies upon a commitment to otherness, unindifference, and dialogue. Building on the dialogic approaches of Mikhail Bakhtin and Emmanuel Levinas, chapters, grouped into five sections, are all guided by the notion of responsibility toward the other outside do ut des logic and greedy exchange. This collection highlights the ways in which semioethics considers the ethical implications of the signs that mediate dialogue among persons in the social sphere, public and private, sacred and profane. It presupposes the notion that signs are only meaningful in their relation to other signs and the intersubjectivity among persons in dialogue. Chapters also variously examine how the interplay of semioethics and dialogue underpins public life and the existential gifts that sustain a healthy polis.

This book will be of interest to scholars in semiotics, dialogue research, communication ethics, and philosophy of communication.

Susan Petrilli is a Professor of Philosophy and Theory of Languages at the University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy. Susan Mancino is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Saint Mary’s University, USA.

Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction: The ethical dimension as the I-other intrigue

Susan Petrilli, Augusto Ponzio and Susan Mancino

Part I: Alterity, infunctionality, and semioethics

1. The right to infunctionality: The foundation of social relations outside the trap of identity

Susan Petrilli and Augusto Ponzio

2. Experience, dialogue, and ethics: Peircean reflections on dialogical ethics

Vincent Colapietro

3. Vico, common sense, communication: Recommendations for a semioethics program

Frank Nuessel

Part II: Relation and communication as orientation toward the other

4. Relational logic and semioethics: A Peircean approach

Elize Bisanz

5. The voice as a hero of dialogue: Reading Bakhtin alongside Peirce

Deborah Eicher-Catt

6. Codes of conduct: Signs of moral memory as symbols of ethical eloquence

Richard L. Lanigan

7. Veneration of semioethical imagination: Wavering between the good and evil of De-sign

Farouk Y. Seif

Part III: Gifting, caring and semioethics

8. The gift of the unilateral gift: The epigenetic origins of semioethics

Genevieve Vaughan

9. A womanist ethic of care and semioethics: Shared ethical and moral expression

Annette D. Madlock

10. Semioethics as an axiology of care for the self-other: A Welbian geneology

Zoe Hurley

Part IV: Listening in dialogic relation

11. Dialogues with and about the past: Semioethics of remembering and forgetting in a digital age

Susan Mancino

12. Semioethical dimensions in leisure: Deepening fialogic capacities

Annette M. Holba

13. Semioethic listening and engagement in ‘the 15-Minute City’

Ionut Untea

14. Linguistic relativity: Semioethics and climate change denialism

Marcel Danesi

Part V: Dialogue, responsibility, and love

15. Powerful sacred signs: A semioethical approach to the laying on of hands in the sacrament of reconciliation

Fernando López-Arias and Jordi Pujol

16. St. Catherine of Siena: Semioethics-responsive communication

Christina L. McDowell

17. Pope Francis’s semioethical ‘net’ work: An approach for dialogical conversion

Christopher J. Oldenburg

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.09.2024
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Research in Language and Communication
Zusatzinfo	3 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	707 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-032-39431-5 / 1032394315
ISBN-13	978-1-032-39431-2 / 9781032394312
Zustand	Neuware