1st Edition
Semioethics as Existential Dialogue The Gift and Burden of Responsibility
Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction: The ethical dimension as the I-other intrigue
Susan Petrilli, Augusto Ponzio and Susan Mancino
Part I: Alterity, infunctionality, and semioethics
1. The right to infunctionality: The foundation of social relations outside the trap of identity
Susan Petrilli and Augusto Ponzio
2. Experience, dialogue, and ethics: Peircean reflections on dialogical ethics
Vincent Colapietro
3. Vico, common sense, communication: Recommendations for a semioethics program
Frank Nuessel
Part II: Relation and communication as orientation toward the other
4. Relational logic and semioethics: A Peircean approach
Elize Bisanz
5. The voice as a hero of dialogue: Reading Bakhtin alongside Peirce
Deborah Eicher-Catt
6. Codes of conduct: Signs of moral memory as symbols of ethical eloquence
Richard L. Lanigan
7. Veneration of semioethical imagination: Wavering between the good and evil of De-sign
Farouk Y. Seif
Part III: Gifting, caring and semioethics
8. The gift of the unilateral gift: The epigenetic origins of semioethics
Genevieve Vaughan
9. A womanist ethic of care and semioethics: Shared ethical and moral expression
Annette D. Madlock
10. Semioethics as an axiology of care for the self-other: A Welbian geneology
Zoe Hurley
Part IV: Listening in dialogic relation
11. Dialogues with and about the past: Semioethics of remembering and forgetting in a digital age
Susan Mancino
12. Semioethical dimensions in leisure: Deepening fialogic capacities
Annette M. Holba
13. Semioethic listening and engagement in ‘the 15-Minute City’
Ionut Untea
14. Linguistic relativity: Semioethics and climate change denialism
Marcel Danesi
Part V: Dialogue, responsibility, and love
15. Powerful sacred signs: A semioethical approach to the laying on of hands in the sacrament of reconciliation
Fernando López-Arias and Jordi Pujol
16. St. Catherine of Siena: Semioethics-responsive communication
Christina L. McDowell
17. Pope Francis’s semioethical ‘net’ work: An approach for dialogical conversion
Christopher J. Oldenburg
Index
Biography
Susan Petrilli is a Professor of Philosophy and Theory of Languages at the University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy.
Susan Mancino is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Saint Mary’s University, USA.
