Dialogue as the Labor of Care: Welcoming a Unity of Contraries

Dialogue as the labor of care unfolds a vision of how the philosophy of dialogue can assist us as human beings to enact care in our daily lives. In the end, caring is a unity of contraries; blessing and burden, joy and suffering, necessity and triumph. The invitation of dialogue into the communicative life of caring requires bravery and courage and thus creates strong and rare natures.</p><p> The impetus of this vision comes from the work of Martin Buber whose ideas have changed the way we view communication and enrich the way we view caring. The additional metaphor of labor, provided by the work of Hannah Arendt, allows for a deeper understanding of caring. The metaphor of labor reveals and emphasizes that not only is care a necessity for human communicative life, care is at the same time a blessing and a burden. The necessity of labor opens the conversation concerning care through the notion of care as an imperative for everyday communicative life. Joy and suffering, blessing and burden, necessity and triumph emphasize the fact that life is best lived in the unity of contraries.

Name thesis:degree_name

PhD

Level thesis:degree_level

Worldwide Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communication and Rhetorical Studies

Year dc:date.available

2005

Author dc:creator

• Baker-Ohler, Marie

Contributors dc:contributor

• Ronald C. Arnett
• Janie Harden Fritz
• Richard H. Thames

• Arendt
• Buber
• care
• communication ethics
• dialogue
• interpersonal communication
• labor

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/27

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dsc.duq.edu:etd-1026