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

Author
Arnett, Ronald C., 1952-
Published
Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, [1999]
Copyright Date
©1999
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvii, 331 pages).
Additional Creators
Arneson, Pat, 1961-
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Language Note
English.
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.
Summary
"Dialogic Civility in a Cynical Age offers a philosophical and pragmatic response to unreflective cynicism. Considering that each of us has faced inappropriate cynical communication in families, educational institutions, and the workplace, this book offers insight and practical guidance for people interested in improving their interpersonal relationships in an age of rampant cynicism."--Jacket
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ISBN
0585283060 (electronic bk.)
9780585283067 (electronic bk.)
0791443256 (alk. paper)
0791443264 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (305-322) and index.
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