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The Interruption That We Are - The Health of the Lived Body, Narrative, and Public Moral Argument (Hardcover)
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The Interruption That We Are - The Health of the Lived Body, Narrative, and Public Moral Argument (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Rhetoric/Communication
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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: Soren Kierkegaard,
Martin Heidegger, and Emmanuel Levinas. These thinkers demonstrate
in various ways that interruption is not simply a heuristic tool,
but constitutive of being human. After developing a critical
assessment of these thinkers, Hyde offers four case studies in
public moral argument that illustrate the applicability of his
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 achievements in
medical science and technology. These improvements are changing the
nature of the interruption that we are, yet the wisdom of such
progress has yet to be determined. Much more public moral argument
is required. Hyde's philosophy of communication ethics not only
calls for the cultivation of wisdom but also promotes the fight for
truth, which is essential to the livelihood of democracy.
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