Philosophy of Communication Ethics

The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Series In Communication Studies

General Editor: Gary Radford, Department of Communication Studies,
Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey.

The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Communication Studies publishes scholarly works in communication theory, practice, history, and culture.

Recent Publications in Communication Studies

Ronald C. Arnett and Pat Arneson (eds.), Philosophy of Communication Ethics: Alterity and the Other (2014)

Pat Arneson, Communicative Engagement and Social Liberation: Justice Will
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Erik A. Garrett, Why Do We Go to the Zoo?: Communication, Animals, and the Cultural-Historical Experience of Zoos (2013)

Philip Dalton and Eric Kramer, Coarseness in U.S. Public Communication (2012)

Catherine Creede, Beth Fisher-Yoshida, and Placida Gallegos (eds.), The Reflective,
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Jolanta Aritz and Robyn C. Walker, Discourse Perspectives on Organizational
Communication (2011)

S. Alyssa Groom and J. M. H. Fritz, Communication Ethics and Crisis: Negotiating Differences in Public and Private Spheres (2011)

R. C. MacDougall, Digination: Identity, Organization, and Public Life (2011)

Deborah Eicher-Catt and Isaac E. Catt (eds.), Communicology: The New Science of
Embodied Discourse (2010)

Dan Cassino and Yesamin Besen-Cassino, Consuming Politics: Jon Stewart, Branding, and the Youth Vote in America (2009)

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Philosophy of Communication Ethics

Alterity and the Other

Edited by Ronald C. Arnett and Pat Arneson







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Philosophy of communication ethics : alterity and the other / edited by Ronald C. Arnett and Pat Arneson.

pages cm.—(The Fairleigh Dickinson university press series in communication studies)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-61147-707-8 (cloth : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-1-61147-708-5 (electronic)

1. Other (Philosophy) 2. Communication—Moral and ethical aspects. I. Arnett, Ronald C., 1952- editor.

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