Michael J. Hyde is University Distinguished Professor of Communication Ethics in the Department of Communication and is on the faculty of the Program for Bioethics, Health and Society in the School of Medicine, Wake Forest University. He is the author of The Life-Giving Gift of Acknowledgment, The Ethos of Rhetoric, and award-winning The Call of Conscience. He and his wife live in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
The volume draws together works by accomplished thinkers each
working with one of the 20th centurys most important philosophers.
Insights and challenges are provided, enriching the study and
discussion of both the theory and practice of communication.
Stanley Deetz, NCA Distinguished Scholar, University of Colorado
Boulder
[A] brilliant exploration of the life-giving force behind the very
act of acknowledging another human being. This book has much to say
to philosophers, rhetoricians, and ethicists. The depth of
scholarship is exceeded only by the wealth of case studies from
life and literature. Roy V. Wood, Professor in Human Communication
Studies and Director of the Center for Civic Ethics, University of
Denver
[I]n taking up an essential gesture of humanity acknowledgement and
elaborating it by recourse to films, novels, poetry, philosophy,
religion, science, and social controversy Hyde never loses sight of
his purpose, to understand and affirm the
moral-ontological-rhetorical gift of acknowledging another. The
book is courageous because it takes up such emotionally difficult
issues as the symbolism of the confederate flag, what it meant to
be heroic after September 11, 2001, and the ethical character of
life in a world of computer technology. Carole Blair, Professor of
Communications, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hyde takes us into the world of everyday-being-with-others to
demonstrate that it does not have to be mundane. The book has great
potential for healing us all. Craig R. Smith, Professor of
Communication Studies, California State University, Long Beach
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