Communication Ethics

This volume occasions a dialogue between major authors in the field who engage in a conversation on cosmopolitanism and provinciality from a communication ethics perspective. There is no consensus on what constitutes communication ethics, cosmopolitanism, or provinciality: the task is more modest and diverse and began with contributors being asked what the bias of their work suggests or offers for understanding the theme Communication Ethics: Between Cosmopolitanism and Provinciality. Rather than responding authoritatively, each essay acknowledges the contributor’s own work. This book offers no answers, but invites a conversation that is more akin to a beginning, a joining, an admission that there is more than «me», «us», or «my kind» of people, theory, or wisdom. The book will be an excellent resource for instructors and for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in communication.

The Editors: Kathleen Glenister Roberts is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies and Director of the Core Curriculum at Duquesne University. She was the director of the University’s Ethics Institute from 2004-2007. Her most recent single-authored scholarly book is Alterity and Narrative: Stories and the Negotiation of Western Identity (2007). Ronald C. Arnett is Chair and Professor in the Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies at Duquesne University. He is the author of six books, two edited books, numerous articles, and he is the Editor-Elect of the The Review of Communication; his most recent book is Communication Ethics Literacy: Dialogue and Difference (forthcoming, co-authored with Janie Harden Fritz and Leeanne Bell).