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We live in an age of ethical disputes, making conflict inevitable as we meet others with contrasting ethical positions and contrary communicative expectations. An ethical position held with conviction frequently generates conflict when one encounters another with a differing ethical standpoint embraced with equal assurance. 
Conflict Between Persons: The Origins of Leadership conceptualizes communication and conflict as a pragmatically essential everyday education for future leadership. 
Conflict Between Persons: The Origins of Leadership emphasizes creative and constructive reactions to conflict responsiveness with three basic coordinates: (1) learn before, during, and after a conflict, (2) understand what matters to you and others, and (3) acknowledge that conflict engagement involves alertness to, and understanding of, what matters in the interplay of self and others and the immediate and larger communicative environment. Leadership begins with the study and practice of communication ethics understood as background that carries a sense of a given good that we seek to protect and promote. The study of communication ethics does not shelter us from conflict; in fact, it invites conflict, providing clarity about what is important to us and to others. Leadership frames the larger significance of behavior by announcing what matters, turning isolated conduct and conflict into meaningful action situated within a story. 
The authors conceptualize communication and conflict as an existential education for leadership that begins with a willingness to enter the fray of everyday disagreement propelled by a pragmatic objective: learning from others and difference. Communicative leadership in an era of routine contentiousness must engage and learn from diverse convictions and conceptions of what matters.
Conflict Between Persons: The Origins of Leadership:
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<li>Examines the complex issues of ethical diversity; ethical positions can now generate conflict. </li>
<li>Uses the insights of communication/leadership expert Gail T. Fairhurst, the book frames the reality of conflict as an ongoing pragmatic education for leadership. </li>
<li>Examines emotion, sentiment, conflict origins, difference, the interplay of relationships and perceptions, self talk and internal conflict, the power of opinion, multiplicity of conflict styles, the danger of anachronistic responses, and alternatives to destructive conflict. </li>
<li>Introduces the Odyssey in the final chapter as a case study to examine the interplay of conflict, ethics in dispute, and leadership in action.</li>
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Is student friendly! The publication incorporates key terms, glossary, index, and navigational aids such as boldface terms, headings, sub-heads, and informational sidebars to serve as helpful reference points. </li>
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Is instructor friendly! An instructor’s manual includes chapter objectives, key terms, chapter outlines, learning activities, suggestions for supplemental movies and books, journal reflection questions, test questions (multiple choice, true/false, and essay), comprehensive Power Point presentations, and summarized Power Point presentations with discussion questions.</li>
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Conflict between Persons: The Origins of Leadership

Business & Money

Arnett, Ronald C.

Leeanne M. Bell McManus

MCKENDREE AMANDA G

Skills

Kendall/Hunt Publishing

Offers insight and practical guidance for people interested in improving their interpersonal relationships in an age of rampant cynicism. Dialogic Civility in a Cynical Age offers a philosophical and pragmatic response to unreflective cynicism. Considering that each of us has faced inappropriate cynical communication in families, educational institutions, and the workplace, this book offers insight and practical guidance for people interested in improving their interpersonal relationships in an age of rampant cynicism.

Dialogic Civility in a Cynical Age: Community, Hope, and Interpersonal Relationships (SUNY Series, Communication Studies) (Suny Series in Communication Studies)

Self-Help

Arneson, Pat

Relationships

State Univ of New York Pr

Communication and Community: Implications of Martin Buber's Dialogue

Martin Buber’s work suggests that real life begins with two individuals engaged in dialogue, not just taking care of one’s own needs as described in social Darwinism.
Arnett argues that the end of the age of abundance demands that we give up the communicative strategies of the past and seek to work together in the midst of limited resources and an uncertain future. Today’s situation calls for an unwavering commitment to Buber’s “narrow ridge” concern for both self and community.
Arnett illustrates the narrow ridge definition of interpersonal communication with rich examples. His vignettes demonstrate effective and ineffective approaches to human community. An effective approach, he makes clear, incorporates not only openness to others’ points of view but also a willingness to be persuaded.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Southern Illinois University Press

Philosophy

Dialogic Education: Conversation About Ideas and Between Persons

Examining undergraduate education from the point of view of a philosopher of communication, Ronald C. Arnett takes a positive view of higher education during a time when education is being assailed as seldom before. Arnett responds to this criticism with convincing support of the academy reinforced by his personal experiences as well as those of others scholars and teachers. Arnett's book is an invitation to converse about higher education as well as a reminder of the potential for dialogue between teacher and student, dialogue that the author defines as a "willingness to enter conversation about ideas," to maintain relationships through differences, and to ask value questions. Arnett see education as more than the dispensing of information. He emphasizes the importance of character development as well as the the development of relationships between students and teachers. Arnett stresses the importance of honesty and integrity in students, teachers, and administrators, and he insists that education should focus more on the good of the entire school than on the individual. Arnett does not offer this book as the truth about education nor as a "how to teach" manual. Rather, he regards it as an attempt to understand education from a communication perspective and as a reminder of the positive and constructive aspects of teaching. The book is based on Arnett's belief that educators who care about ideas and people not only improve education but also benefit the community.

Sociology

Examining undergraduate education from the point of view of a philosopher of communication, Ronald C. Arnett takes a positive view of higher education during a time when education is being assailed as seldom before. Arnett responds to this criticism with convincing support of the academy reinforced by his personal experiences as well as those of others scholars and teachers. Arnett's book is an invitation to converse about higher education as well as a reminder of the potential for dialogue between teacher and student, dialogue that the author defines as a "willingness to enter conversation about ideas," to maintain relationships through differences, and to ask value questions. Arnett see education as more than the dispensing of information. He emphasizes the importance of character development as well as the the development of relationships between students and teachers. Arnett stresses the importance of honesty and integrity in students, teachers, and administrators, and he insists that education should focus more on the good of the entire school than on the individual. Arnett does not offer this book as the truth about education nor as a "how to teach" manual. Rather, he regards it as an attempt to understand education from a communication perspective and as a reminder of the positive and constructive aspects of teaching. The book is based on Arnett's belief that educators who care about ideas and people not only improve education but also benefit the community.

Dialogic Confession: Bonhoeffer's Rhetoric of Responsibility

In this landmark volume of contemporary communication theory, Ronald C. Arnett applies the metaphor of dialogic confession―which enables historical moments to be addressed from a confessed standpoint and through a communicative lens―to the works of German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who pointed to an era of postmodern difference with his notion of "a world come of age." Arnett’s interpretations of Bonhoeffer’s life and scholarship in contention with Nazi dominance offer implications for a dialogic confession that engages the complexity of postmodern narrative contention.
Rooted in classical theory, the field of communication ethics is abstract and arguably outmoded. In Dialogic Confession: Bonhoeffer’s Rhetoric of Responsibility, Arnett locates cross-cultural and comparative anchors that not only bring legitimacy and relevance to the field but also develop a conceptual framework that will advance and inspire future scholarship.

Literature & Fiction

Renowned in the disciplines of political theory and philosophy, Hannah Arendt’s searing critiques of modernity continue to resonate in other fields of thought decades after she wrote them. In Communication Ethics in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt’s Rhetoric of Warning and Hope, author Ronald C. Arnett offers a groundbreaking examination of fifteen of Arendt’s major scholarly works, considering the German writer’s contributions to the areas of rhetoric and communication ethics for the first time. 
Arnett focuses on Arendt’s use of the phrase “dark times” to describe the mistakes of modernity, defined by Arendt as the post-Enlightenment social conditions, discourses, and processes ruled by principles of efficiency, progress, and individual autonomy. These principles, Arendt argues, have led humanity down a path of folly, banality, and hubris. Throughout his interpretive evaluation, Arnett illuminates the implications of Arendt’s persistent metaphor of “dark times” and engages the question, How might communication ethics counter the tenets of dark times and their consequences? A compelling study of Hannah Arendt’s most noteworthy works and their connections to the fields of rhetoric and communication ethics, Communication Ethics in Dark Times provides an illuminating introduction for students and scholars of communication ethics and rhetoric, and a tool with which experts may discover new insights, connections, and applications to these fields. Top Book Award for Philosophy of Communication Ethics by Communication Ethics Division of the National Communication Association, 2013

Communication Ethics in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt's Rhetoric of Warning and Hope

Distinguished Book Award, Philosophy of Communication Division, National Communication Association, 2017
Top Book Award, Communication Ethics Division, National Communication Association, 2017Philosopher Emmanuel Levinas’s ethics as first philosophy explicates a human obligation and responsibility to and for the Other that is an unending and imperfect commitment. In Levinas’s Rhetorical Demand: The Unending Obligation of Communication Ethics, Ronald C. Arnett underscores the profundity of Levinas’s insights for communication ethics. Arnett outlines communication ethics as a primordial call of responsibility central to Levinas’s writing and mission, analyzing it through a Levinasian lens with examination of social artifacts ranging from the Heidegger-Cassirer debate to Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World story concerning illicit possession of information. Levinas’s Rhetorical Demand offers an account of Levinas’s project and the pragmatic implications of attending to a call of responsibility to and for the Other. This book yields a rich and nuanced understanding of Levinas’s work, revealing the practical importance of his insights, and including a discussion of related theorists and thinkers.

Levinas's Rhetorical Demand: The Unending Obligation of Communication Ethics

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Conflict between Persons: The Origins of Leadership

Dialogic Civility in a Cynical Age: Community, Hope, and Interpersonal Relationships (SUNY Series, Communication Studies) (Suny Series in Communication Studies)

Communication and Community: Implications of Martin Buber's Dialogue

Communication and Community: Implications of Martin Buber's Dialogue

Dialogic Education: Conversation About Ideas and Between Persons

Dialogic Education: Conversation About Ideas and Between Persons

Dialogic Confession: Bonhoeffer's Rhetoric of Responsibility

Dialogic Confession: Bonhoeffer's Rhetoric of Responsibility

Communication Ethics in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt's Rhetoric of Warning and Hope

Levinas's Rhetorical Demand: The Unending Obligation of Communication Ethics