An Ecology of Communication : Response and Responsibility in an Age of Ecocrisis

An Ecology of Communication addresses an ecological and communicative dilemma: the universe, earth, and socio-cultural life world are resoundingly dialogic, yet we have created modern and postmodern cultures largely governed by monologue. This book is indispensable reading for scholars and students of communication, ecology, and social sciences, as it moves readers beyond the anthropocentric bias of communication study toward a listening-based model of communication, an essential move for discerning fitting responses and the call to responsibility in an age of ecocrisis. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Ecocrisis as a Crisis of Communication Notes Chapter 1: The Fitting Response: Calvin O. Schrag and Rational Communication Interlude: A Return to Experience Transversal Rationality: The Practice of Logos The Gift Must Move: Theos and Eros Notes Chapter 2: Integral Meta-Theory: Ken Wilber and Spiritual Communication Levels/Stages, Lines, and States Shadows and Light, Unfitting and Fitting: Transcendent Traditions Transcendentalism as Exemplar: Sympathy with Intelligence Notes Chapter 3: To Learn but Not Return: Paul Shepard and Mythic-Animistic Communication Shadows and Light, Unfitting and Fitting: Deep Ecology Shadows and Light, Unfitting and Fitting: Ecopsychology The Council of All Beings as Exemplar Notes Chapter 4: The Pattern that Connects: Gregory Bateson and Aesthetic Communication Shadows and Light, Unfitting and Fitting: Learning, Language, and Living It Robin Wall Kimmerer as Exemplar Notes Chapter 5: Discerning the Unfit: From New Age to Ascension A New Age Fable Questioning the Quest for a New Age The Dream Team: Spiritualism, Telepathy, Angels, NDEs, Precognition, Channeling, and Synchronicities Always and Forever: Falling in Love with Interpretation and Action Notes Chapter 6: Discerning the Unfit: Interspecies Communication Grizzlies, Dolphins, and Secret Lives The Not-So-Amazing Case of Strongheart and Freddy the Fly Nature as Self: Michael Roads’ Talking with Nature Conversations with Trees: Gagliano and Kaza Notes Chapter 7: The Call to Responsibility: Thoreau and the Voice(s) of Nature Why Thoreau? Overcoming Nature? Sympathy and Science Speaking for Nature: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and Anthropomorphism Speaking Out: Thoreau and Activism Notes Epilogue: A Fitting Responsiveness: Communicating Our Way into the Future Notes Works Cited Index About the Author "An Ecology of Communication moves readers beyond the anthropocentric bias of communication study and toward a listening-based model of communication; an essential move toward discerning fitting responses and the call to responsibility in an age of ecocrisis"-- Provided by publisher