An essential theme running through this volume is the idea that our efforts to engage, as well as other's efforts to engage us, have been seriously impaired because of problems which are fundamentally communicative in nature. More specifically, there is general agreement among the contributors that the voice of other has not been sufficiently heard, and this on account of how discourses of the human sciences, as well as other dominant discourses (e.g. law) have structured our interaction with other. Each of the essays helps to clarify the nature of the communicative failing and to develop an appropriate corrective action.
Contributors include Sara Cobb, Lynn Comerford, Donald P. Cushman, Joseph Gemin, Alan Gross, Teresa Harrision, Michael Huspek, Branislav Kovacic, Klaus Krippendorff, Lenore Langsdorf, Robert MacDouglass, Gary P. Radford, John Shotter, Andrew Smith, and Brian Taylor.
