Listening, Thinking, Being: Toward an Ethics of Attunement by Lisbeth LipariISBN: 9780271063324
Publication Date: 2014-06-24
The purpose of the book is, first, to make readers aware of the value and importance of listening as a fundamental human ability inextricably connected with language and thought; second, to alert readers to the complexity of listening from personal, cultural, and philosophical perspectives; and third, to offer readers a way to think of listening as a mode of communicative action by which humans create and abide in the world. Lisbeth Lipari brings together historical, literary, intercultural, and scientific perspectives.