Communication Ethics

The Editors: Kathleen Glenister Roberts is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies and Director of the Core Curriculum at Duquesne University. She was the director of the University’s Ethics Institute from 2004-2007. Her most recent single-authored scholarly book is Alterity and Narrative: Stories and the Negotiation of Western Identity (2007). Ronald C. Arnett is Chair and Professor in the Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies at Duquesne University. He is the author of six books, two edited books, numerous articles, and he is the Editor-Elect of the The Review of Communication; his most recent book is Communication Ethics Literacy: Dialogue and Difference (forthcoming, co-authored with Janie Harden Fritz and Leeanne Bell).

Contents: Kathleen Glenister Roberts/Ronald C. Arnett: Introduction: Cosmopolitanism and Provinciality: [Exploring] Communication Ethics – Clifford G. Christians: Universals and the Human – Leslie A. Baxter/Chitra Akkoor: Aesthetic Love and Romantic Love in Close Relationships – Walter R. Fisher: Glimpses of Hope: Rhetorical and Dialogical Discourse Promoting Cosmopolitanism – Ronald C. Arnett: Provinciality and the Face of the Other: Levinas on Communication Ethics, Terrorism - Otherwise Than Originative Agency – Kathleen Glenister Roberts: Dialogic Ethics, Cosmopolitanism, and Intercultural Communication: Globalization Matters – John Stewart: Cosmopolitan Communication Ethics Understanding and Action: Religion and Dialogue – Pat J. Gehrke: Community at the End of the World – Pat Arneson: A Dialogic Ethic in the Public Rhetoric of Angelina Grimke – Christopher Lyle Johnstone: Eros, Logos, and Sophia in Plato: Philosophic Conversation, Spiritual Lovemaking, and Dialogic Ethics – Ronald L. Jackson II/Jamie Moshin: Scripting Jewishness Within the Satire The Hebrew Hammer – G. L. Ercolini: Arendt, Adorno, and Benjamin: Response, Responsibility, and Commitment – Lenore Langsdorf: The Reasonableness of Bias – Rob Anderson/Kenneth Cissna: Dismissiveness and Dialogic Ethics: Rush Limbaugh and Public Dialogue – Kathleen Glenister Roberts/Ronald C. Arnett: Afterword.