Jane Addams and Hans-Georg Gadamer: Learning to Listen with the Other

<p>This dissertation is an attempt to explain how listening functions in ethical and political contexts. I put forward a three-fold way of listening that begins in selfishness and ends in empathy. These three ways of listening I refer to as: “listening-for,” “listening-to,” and “listening-with.” I will briefly explain how each of these ways of listening function in lived experience. Listening-for is self-centered, listening-to deals in relations between self and other, and listening-with involves both parties (individuals or groups) working together. These forms of listening are implicitly situated in both Hans-Georg Gadamer and Jane Addams. The bulk of the dissertation is unpacking this general theory of listening based on Gadamer’s and Addams’s thought.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy

Level thesis:degree_level

Open Access Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Philosophy

Year dc:date.available

2015

Author dc:creator

• Jostedt, Mike Patrick

Contributors dc:contributor

• Stikkers, Keneth

• Addams
• Feminism
• Listening

Repository record dc:identifier

https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1130

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:opensiuc.lib.siu.edu:dissertations-2134