Philosophy of Communication Ethics

Ronald C. Arnett is chair and professor at the Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies and the Henry Koren, C.S.Sp., Endowed Chair for Scholarly Excellence at Duquesne University.Pat Arneson is associate professor and co-director of the graduate programs at the Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies at Duquesne University.

Philosophy of Communication Ethics is a unique and timely volume that creatively examines communication ethics, philosophy of communication, and "the other."

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionSection I: Otherness: Place and SpaceChapter 1: The Pantheism Controversy: Rhetoric, Enlightenment, and Memory by G. L. ErcoliniChapter 2: A Rhetoric of Sentiment: The House the Scots Built by Ronald C. ArnettChapter 3: Before the One and the Other: Ethico-Political Communication and Community by Pat J. GehrkeChapter 4: Ethics, Kairos, & Akroasis: An Essay on Time and Relation by Lisbeth LipariSection II: Otherness and JusticeChapter 5: Communication, Diversity, and Ethics in Higher Education by Brenda J. AllenChapter 6: Tymienieckäs Benevolent Sentiment as Ground for Communication Ethics: Juliette Hampton Morgan¿s Advocacy for Racial Justice by Pat ArnesonChapter 7: The Ethical Challenges of Friendship in Interpersonal and Mexico-US Relations: A Case Study of The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada by Austin S. Babrow and Lindsey M. RoseChapter 8: Resolutions of Regret: The Other in the Evolution of a State Apology for Slavery by John B. HatchChapter 9: Public Memory of Christopher Isherwood¿s Novel, A Single Man: Communication Ethics, Social Differences, and Alterity in Media Portrayals of Homosexuality by Lester C. OlsonSection III: Otherness and Contextual DivergenceChapter 10: Organization as Other: Professional Civility as Communicative Care for Institutions by Janie M. Harden FritzChapter 11: An Example of the Plurality of Levels of Communication Ethics Analysis in a Newspaper Article by Alain LétourneauChapter 12: Leisure and the Other: Philosophy and Communication Ethics by Annette M. HolbaChapter 13: Saving the Nation: Redemptive Ethos and the Moral Figure of the Refugee by Andreea Deciu RitivoiChapter 14: Communicology and the Ethics of Selfhood under the Regime of Antidepressant Medicine by Isaac E. CattAfterwordMachiavelli¿s Question Mark and the Problem of Ethical Communication by Gerard A. HauserBibliographyAbout the Contributors