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.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enlightenment--Scotland.

Enlightenment.

Communication--Moral and ethical aspects.

Communication.

Hope.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale, Illinois : 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:

Cover

Quotes

Title

Copyright

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

1. Communication Ethics: The Necessity of Tenacious Hope

Part I. Coordinates of Creative Innovation

2. Scottish Education: Ethics and Productive Change

3. Lord Provost George Drummond: Architect of Imaginative Space

Part 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

Part III. A Reifying Grasp

9. Sir Walter Scott: The Fragility of Commemoration

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

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Arnett, Ronald C. Communication Ethics and Tenacious Hope

ISBN:

9780809338542

0809338548