Communication ethics and tenacious hope : contemporary implications of the Scottish enlightenment / Ronald C. Arnett ; foreword by Thomas M. Lessl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arnett, Ronald C., 1952- author.

Contributor:

Lessl, Thomas M., 1954- writer of foreword.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enlightenment--Scotland.

Enlightenment.

Scotland.

Optimism.

Hope.

Persistence.

Communication--Moral and ethical aspects.

Communication.

Physical Description:

xiii, 280 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"From Optimism to Tenacious Hope: Communication Ethics and the Scottish Enlightenment works with the Scottish Enlightenment as the intellectual and performative background for the illustration of the differentiation between optimism and tenacious hope"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Communication Ethics: The Necessity of Tenacious Hope

pt. I Coordinates of Creative Innovation

2. Scottish Education: Ethics and Productive Change

3. Lord Provost George Drummond: Architect of Imaginative Space

pt. II Scholarship and Locality

4. Adam Smith: Commercial Life and Caution

5. David Hume: Scholarship and Skepticism

6. Thomas Reid: Common Sense and Undue Clarity

7. George Campbell: An Integrative Rhetoric

8. Adam Ferguson: Discerning Intersections

pt. III A Reifying Grasp

9. Sir Walter Scott: The Fragility of Commemoration

10. Communication Ethics and Marginalization: The Dark Side of Progress.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-263) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Arnett, Ronald C., 1952- Communication ethics and tenacious hope

ISBN:

9780809338535

080933853X

OCLC:

1250307586