Openings
Subtitle: acknowledging essential moments in human communication
By: Michael J. Hyde
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Waco, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781602585836
Subjects: Interpersonal communication
Description: 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. -- from dust jacket.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: In the beginning was an opening; title: The daily habit of being open; title: The call to openness; title: Acknowledgment: being open to otherness; title: Our perfect capacity for being the open; title: Truth, eloquence, and the creation of openings; title: Confession as an opening; title: The beauty of being open; title: Dialogue and the death of openness.