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Cooren, François and Ronald C. Arnett, eds. 2018. Dialogic Ethics. (Dialogue Studies 30). John Benjamins. xiv, 286 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English

Annotation

Dialogic Ethics offers an impressionistic picture of the diversity of perspectives on this topic. Daily people witness local, regional, national, and international disputes, each propelled by contention over what is and should be the good propelling communicative direction and action. Communication ethics understood as an answer to problems often creates them. If people understand communication ethics as a good protected and promoted by a given set of communicators, they can understand how acts of colonialism and totalitarianism could move forward, legitimized by the assumption that “I am right.” This volume eschews such a presupposition, recognizing that people live in a time of narrative and virtue contention. They dwell in an era where the one answer is more often dangerous than correct.