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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.
List of contents
Table of Contents
Introduction: Ecocrisis as a Crisis of Communication
Chapter One: The Fitting Response: Calvin O. Schrag and Rational Communication
Chapter Two: Integral Meta-Theory: Ken Wilber and Spiritual Communication
Chapter Three: To Learn but Not Return: Paul Shepard and Mythic-Animistic Communication
Chapter Four: The Pattern that Connects: Gregory Bateson and Aesthetic Communication
Chapter Five: Discerning the Unfit: New Age to Ascension
Chapter Six: Discerning the Unfit: Interspecies Communication
Chapter Seven: The Call to Responsibility: Thoreau and the Voice(s) of Nature
Epilogue: A Fitting Responsiveness: Communicating Our Way into the Future
About the author
William Homestead is associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at New England College.
Summary
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.
