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Grudin's third book-length philosophical essay, On Dialogue, tackles no lesser subject than how the free mind thinks--in art, science, ethics, and politics. But the title is misleading: Grudin thinks that "being dialogic" is a characteristic of creative free thought even in many cases where no "dialogue," in the literal sense, is going on. For example, he defines the writing of a journal as a typically dialogic process, on the grounds that part of the pleasure and intellectual value of the exercise is to "externalize" ones own thoughts and then have them reflect back on more recent thoughts.
Grudin's third book-length philosophical essay, On Dialogue, tackles no lesser subject than how the free mind thinks--in art, science, ethics, and politics. But the title is misleading: Grudin thinks that "being dialogic" is a characteristic of creative free thought even in many cases where no "dialogue," in the literal sense, is going on. For example, he defines the writing of a journal as a typically dialogic process, on the grounds that part of the pleasure and intellectual value of the exercise is to "externalize" ones own thoughts and then have them reflect back on more recent thoughts.
One obvious criticism is that Grudin, while ranging over a wide variety of subjects, including Plato, diversity in education, and political reform in the old Eastern bloc, doesn't explain what "undialogic" thought, if it exists, would be like. Some readers may find that the book tries too hard to be about everything, and would likely prefer his earlier book, Time and the Art of Living. --Richard Farr
From Publishers Weekly
In a wonderfully stimulating inquiry, Grudin investigates dialogue at all levels-between friends and lovers, in the classroom, the give-and-take of political discourse, in the artist's feedback loop with his or her evolving creative product. Defining dialogue broadly as an evolutionary process in which the parties are changed as they proceed, the author, who teaches literature and humanities at the University of Oregon, looks as well at the mind's dialogue with itself, journal-keeping and patterns of dialogue and self-inquiry in Shakespeare's Hamlet, Martin Buber's I and Thou, Henry James's Daisy Miller, Rabelais and Montaigne. He also scrutinizes the paintings of Pieter Brueghel and Giuseppe Arcimboldo, court painter to Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, who deconstructed imperial power in composite portraits depicting faces made of fruits and vegetables. Proposing that humanity is in constant dialogue with its tools, artifacts, inventions, texts and symbols, Grudin considers the suppression of the free flow of information under communist tyrannies and maps Western scientists' probe of nature's workings. The open-ended structure of this adventurous essay compels a dialogue with the reader, forcing us to let go of fixed perspectives.
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