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An Ecology of Communication : Response and Responsibility in an Age of Ecocrisis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Homestead, William, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Communication--Social aspects.
- Communication.
- Ecology--Philosophy.
- Ecology.
- Listening.
- Perception.
- Medical Subjects:
- Perception.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (391 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2021]
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Ecocrisis as a Crisis of Communication
- Notes
- Chapter 1: The Fitting Response: Calvin O. Schrag and Rational Communication
- Interlude: A Return to Experience
- Transversal Rationality: The Practice of Logos
- The Gift Must Move: Theos and Eros
- Chapter 2: Integral Meta-Theory: Ken Wilber and Spiritual Communication
- Levels/Stages, Lines, and States
- Shadows and Light, Unfitting and Fitting: Transcendent Traditions
- Transcendentalism as Exemplar: Sympathy with Intelligence
- Chapter 3: To Learn but Not Return: Paul Shepard and Mythic-Animistic Communication
- Shadows and Light, Unfitting and Fitting: Deep Ecology
- Shadows and Light, Unfitting and Fitting: Ecopsychology
- The Council of All Beings as Exemplar
- Chapter 4: The Pattern that Connects: Gregory Bateson and Aesthetic Communication
- Shadows and Light, Unfitting and Fitting: Learning, Language, and Living It
- Robin Wall Kimmerer as Exemplar
- Chapter 5: Discerning the Unfit: From New Age to Ascension
- A New Age Fable
- Questioning the Quest for a New Age
- The Dream Team: Spiritualism, Telepathy, Angels, NDEs, Precognition, Channeling, and Synchronicities
- Always and Forever: Falling in Love with Interpretation and Action
- Chapter 6: Discerning the Unfit: Interspecies Communication
- Grizzlies, Dolphins, and Secret Lives
- The Not-So-Amazing Case of Strongheart and Freddy the Fly
- Nature as Self: Michael Roads' Talking with Nature
- Conversations with Trees: Gagliano and Kaza
- Chapter 7: The Call to Responsibility: Thoreau and the Voice(s) of Nature
- Why Thoreau?
- Overcoming Nature?
- Sympathy and Science.
- Speaking for Nature: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and Anthropomorphism
- Speaking Out: Thoreau and Activism
- Epilogue: A Fitting Responsiveness: Communicating Our Way into the Future
- Works Cited
- Index
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-66698-407-8
- 1-7936-1815-1
- OCLC:
- 1245961699
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