Openings
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Openings

Acknowledging Essential Moments in Human Communication

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Openings

Acknowledging Essential Moments in Human Communication

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In Openings, award-winning author Michael Hyde provides a fascinating meditation on the ethical dimensions of human communication. With the breadth and depth of learning for which Hyde has become renowned, Openings engages philosophy, science, the arts, theology, and popular culture, all to demonstrate the profound importance of the possibility of openness to the human experience. In every situation, Hyde contends, this posture of conscious openness to the individuals, events, and places that surround us has noticeable effects on the way we--and others--experience the reality of existence. Hyde skillfully illustrates this way of being through abundant references to the larger culture and persuasively shows that by living with intention, and elevating practices such as acknowledgment and confession while rejecting seclusion and neglect, we human beings are enabled to engage fully and fruitfully the world in which we live.

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Publisher
Baylor University Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9781602585850
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Communication Studies
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page, Title page, Copyright, Dedication
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. 1. In the Beginning Was an Opening
  7. 2. The Daily Habit of Being Open
  8. 3. The Call to Openness
  9. 4. Acknowledgment: Being Open to Otherness
  10. 5. Our Perfect Capacity for Being Open
  11. 6. Truth, Eloquence, and the Creation of Openings
  12. 7. Confession as an Opening
  13. 8. The Beauty of Being Open
  14. 9. Dialogue and the Death of Openness
  15. Conclusion: Some Closing Remarks on Openings
  16. Notes
  17. Index