Full Description
This collection of essays extends the conversation on communication ethics and crisis communication to offer practical wisdom for meeting the challenges of a complex and ever-changing world. In multiple contexts ranging from the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and family to the political and public, moments of crisis call us to respond from within particular standpoints that shape our understanding and our response to crisis as we grapple with contested notions of "the good" in our shared life together. With no agreed-upon set of absolutes to guide us, this moment calls us to learn from difference as we seek resources to continue the human conversation as we engage the unexpected. This collection of essays invites multiple epistemological and methodological standpoints to consider alternative ways of thinking about communication ethics and crisis.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction
Part One:Narrativity and Situatedness
Moviegoing Epideictic: Walker Percy and the Rhetorical Tradition
Dialogic Meeting of Crisis: Illuminating Illusions Of The Death Of God and Nietzsche's Revaluation of Values
Understanding Anxiety: The Crisis of Ethical Choice
Part Two:Response-ability as Inner Transparency
Interpersonal Crisis Communication in the Workplace: Professional Civility as Ethical Response to Problematic Interactions
Questioning Back: Engaging an Organization's Narrative for Ethical Communicative Responsiveness in Crisis Situations
The Ethical Imperative Of Significant Choice: Addressing Learning Styles in Crisis Messages
Part Three:Discerning Public and Private Spheres
A More Perfect Union: Recovering Ethics in Public Dialogue
The Crisis Fallacy: Egoism, Epistemology, and Ethics in Crisis Communication and Preparation
Communication Ethics as Janus at the Gates: Responding to Postmodernity and the Normativity of Crisis
