Dialogue in the Digital Age: Why it Matters How We Read and What We Say

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
1. Why dialogue? A brief introduction
	Not-so-free enterprise
	A climate of the times
	Embodied mosaic
	Art as dialogue
	What dialogue is (for now)
	Notes
2. A manner of speaking
	Two minutes to midnight
	The big picture: the stories we tell
	Evolution: beginning again at the beginning
	How language got into it
	Openings: personal, political, religious
	Recapitulation and the uses of literature
	Notes
3. Being not unrecognized
	The same and the different
	Imagining the immanence of others
	Gadamer: prejudgement and disclosure
	How dialogue imitates art
	Bakhtin: space, time, and transgression
	Sir Launcelot misrecognized
	Notes
4. On the side of the sunflowers
	The boundaries of reason and desire
	Abject silences
	Transfiguration and meeting others again
	Tragedy: nothing left to say
	King Lear: dialogue on empty
	Dialogue and "the time that is left"
	Van Gogh: "sorrowful, yet always rejoicing"
	Notes
5. Aporia and epiphany
	Bearings in the bricolage
	Inhabiting aporia
	Travels with Plato: sailors and cave-dwellers
	Art and epiphany
	Pathways: Richard Rolle and Vincent van Gogh
	Notes
6. In conclusion: To be continued
	Notes
Index