This collection brings together perspectives on the interplay of
communication, dialogue, and responsibility, exploring communicative
acts of disruption toward a social environment attuned to
short-sighted individualism. Semioethics highlights the condition of
inevitable entanglement with the other at the origin of sociality,
which demands a response to the other based on listening and
accountability. The volume introduces readers to the theoretical
foundations of semioethics, an emergent direction within sign and
language studies which relies upon a commitment to otherness,
unindifference, and dialogue. Building on the dialogic approaches of
Mikhail Bakhtin and Emmanuel Levinas, chapters, grouped into five
sections, are all guided by the notion of responsibility toward the
other outside do ut des logic and greedy exchange. This collection
highlights the ways in which semioethics considers the ethical
implications of the signs that mediate dialogue among persons in the
social sphere, public and private, sacred and profane. It presupposes
the notion that signs are only meaningful in their relation to other
signs and the intersubjectivity among persons in dialogue. Chapters
also variously examine how the interplay of semioethics and dialogue
underpins public life and the existential gifts that sustain a healthy
polis. This book will be of interest to scholars in semiotics,
dialogue research, communication ethics, and philosophy of
communication.
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The Gift and Burden of Responsibility
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ISBN
9781040132982
Publisert
2024
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Utgiver
Taylor & Francis
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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