Research Catalog

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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Details

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.

Subject

• Existential ethics
• Medical ethics
• Rhetoric > Philosophy
• Communication > Philosophy

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