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The interruption that we are : the health of the lived body, narrative, and public moral argument

Title
The interruption that we are : the health of the lived body, narrative, and public moral argument / Michael J. Hyde.
Author
Hyde, Michael J., 1950-
Publication
  • Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2018]
  • ©2018

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Description
xv, 212 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
"In this provocative and interdisciplinary work, Michael J. Hyde develops a philosophy of communication ethics in which the practice of rhetoric plays a fundamental role in promoting and maintaining the health of our personal and communal existence. He examines how the force of interruption--the universal human capacity to challenge our complacent understanding of existence--is a catalyst for moral reflection and moral behavior. Hyde begins by reviewing the role of interruption in the history of the West, from the Big Bang to biblical figures to classical Greek and contemporary philosophers and rhetoricians to three modern thinkers: Søren Kierkegaard, Martin Heidegger, and Emmanuel Levinas. After developing a critical assessment of these thinkers, Hyde offers case studies in public moral argument that illustrate the applicability of this findings regarding our interruptive nature. These studies feature a patient suffering from heart disease; a disability rights activist defending her personhood; a young woman dying from brain cancer who must justify her decision, against staunch opposition, to opt for medical aid in dying; and the benefits and burdens of what is termed our "posthuman future" with its accelerating breakthroughs in medical science and technology. These advances are changing the nature of the interruption that we are, yet the wisdom of such progress has yet to be determined."--Page 4 of cover.
Series Statement
Studies in rhetoric/communication
Uniform Title
Studies in rhetoric/communication.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-202) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- The first interruption -- Existence and the self -- Existence and the other -- The right word -- The self as other, the other as self -- A good showing of a bad situation -- Our posthuman future -- Epilogue.
Call Number
JFE 18-10126
ISBN
  • 9781611177077
  • 1611177073
LCCN
2018004683
OCLC
1032589109
Author
Hyde, Michael J., 1950- author.
Title
The interruption that we are : the health of the lived body, narrative, and public moral argument / Michael J. Hyde.
Publisher
Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2018]
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Studies in rhetoric/communication
Studies in rhetoric/communication.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-202) and index.
Other Form:
Online version: Hyde, Michael J., 1950- Interruption that we are. Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2018] 9781611177084 (DLC) 2018037248
Research Call Number
JFE 18-10126
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