The essays in this volume consider in multiple ways how philosophies of communication and
communication ethics can shape and enhance human communication. Collectively this book
provides a philosophical and pragmatic orientation to issues that involve interpersonal and
organizational communicative contexts from marketplace political and feminist perspectives.
Chapters explore public attacks of schadenfreude political communication communication in
pedagogical settings intercultural perspectives of narrative and memory in communicative
engagement ethical public relations practices narrative ethics and the feminist voice the
ethics of care and the rhetorical consciousness of marketing. Philosophies of Communication
invites students to develop or improve the critical thinking skills that in turn help them
negotiate deeper philosophical and ethical significances within their everyday communicative
encounters.
