As the title indicates, Face to Face in Dialogue: Emmanuel Levinas and (the) Communication (of) Ethics is about a transformation. It is about a transformation from thinking about the ethics of communication to thinking about the communication of ethics. This work examines the implications of Emmanuel Levinas' philosophy of ethics for the theory, criticism and practice of human communication. In addition to offering a study of communication ethics from a Levinasian perspective, the book investigates the role of communication in the very announcement of ethical obligation and in the pursuit of social justice.

Kenneth Burke: A Dialogue of Motives employs the philosophy of ethics of Emmanuel Levinas to develop a uniquely dramatistic philosophy of ethics. Jeffrey Murray analyzes Kenneth Burke's A Grammar of Motives and A Rhetoric of Motives and offers the notion of "a dialogue of motives" as a completion of Burke's proposed trilogy and as a supplement to Burke's own tools for rhetorical criticism.