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9780271063324 Academic Inspection Copy

Listening, Thinking, Being

Toward an Ethics of Attunement
  • ISBN-13: 9780271063324
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Lisbeth Lipari
  • Price: AUD $152.00
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  • Local release date: 03/12/2019
  • Format: Hardback 288 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Ethics & moral philosophy [HPQ]
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Explores listening as a fundamental human endowment connected with language and thought, and its potential for social, personal, and political action. Incorporates historical, literary, intercultural, scientific, musical, and philosophical perspectives.


Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Akroatic Thinking

Vibrating Worlds and Listening Bodies

Premodern Perspectives on Language and Thought

Contemporary Perspectives on Language and Thought

Communication and a Nice Knock-Down Argument

Interlistening and the Tout Ensemble

Listening Others to Speech

Toward an Ethics of Attunement

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“In this well-written book, Lipari provides an analysis of how humans build ethical relationships with others through listening. In eight chapters, the author makes clear the value and importance of listening as a fundamental human ability inextricably connected with language and thought. Through a variety of philosophical, personal, and cultural perspectives, Lipari frames listening in new ways. In a particularly interesting chapter, “Communication and a Nice Knock-Down Argument,” Lipari argues that even communication in isolation is dialogic because of the ways in which words from the past reverberate with the rhetor. In a concluding chapter, Lipari argues for “attunement,” the inseparable connection between speaking and logos. Many other texts engage the importance of listening in human communication . . . but Lipari is one of few scholars to take on the daunting task of developing new philosophical approaches to this subject.”

—K. L. Majocha, Choice

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