Overview
Our philosophy is grounded in only half a language, in which the power of discourse is deployed and the strength of listening ignored. We are inhabitants of a culture that knows how to speak but not how to listen, so we constantly mistake warring monologues for genuine dialogue. In this remarkable book, Gemma Corradi Fiumara seeks to redress that balance by examining the other side of language - listening. Synthesising the insights of Wittgenstein, Heidegger and Gadamer, among many others, she puts forward a powerful argument for the replacement of the silent' silence of traditional Western thought with the rich openness of an authentic listening.
Full Product Details
Author: Gemma Corradi Fiumara ,
Charles Lambert
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 13.80cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.320kg
ISBN: 9780415049276
ISBN 10: 041504927
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 07 December 1995
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This book serves as a cultural, social and personal wake-up call to a world culture awash in too many words that are useless, destructive and meaningless. It is also a superlative instrument for theological/homiletical dialogue.. -Homiletic, Winter 1998 Vol XXIII, No 2 This remarkable book reflects the main issues of contemporary philosophy . . . [Corradi Fiumara's] arguments for an integral understanding of Western logic . . . are convincing and . . . they open new perspectives as well as outlooks on the future of philosophy. From reviews of the cloth edition: -Manfred Riedel
This book serves as a cultural, social and personal wake-up call to a world culture awash in too many words that are useless, destructive and meaningless. It is also a superlative instrument for theological/homiletical dialogue.. <br>-Homiletic, Winter 1998 Vol XXIII, No 2 <br> This remarkable book reflects the main issues of contemporary philosophy . . . [Corradi Fiumara's] arguments for an integral understanding of Western logic . . . are convincing and . . . they open new perspectives as well as outlooks on the future of philosophy. <br>From reviews of the cloth edition: <br>-Manfred Riedel <br>
Author Information
Gemma Corradi Fiumara took her B.A. degree at Barnard College of Columbia University where she studied as a Fulbright scholar. She is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Third University of Rome and a full member of the International Psychoanalytical Association. She is the author of Philosophy and Coexistence, The Symbolic Function: Psychoanalysis and the Philosophy of Language, and most recently The Metaphoric Process: Connections between Language and Life (Routledge, 1995).
