Moments of Meeting

Kenneth N. Cissna is Professor of Communication at the University of South Florida, and Rob Anderson is Professor of Communication at Saint Louis University. Their collaborative work in the philosophy and practice of dialogue includes two previous books, The Martin Buber–Carl Rogers Dialogue: A New Transcript with Commentary, a companion volume to Moments of Meeting, and the anthology The Reach of Dialogue: Confirmation, Voice, and Community (with Ronald C. Arnett).

• ForewordBarnett Pearce Introduction 1. Dialogue in Public Space 2. A Rhetorical Approach to Dialogue 3. Buber and the Philosophy of Dialogue 4. Rogers and the Praxis of Dialogue 5. Historical Context and the Buber–Rogers Meeting 6. Interhuman Meeting 7. Theorizing Dialogic Moments 8. Conversations of Democracy 9. The Next Voices NotesReferencesAbout the AuthorsAuthor IndexSubject Index

"In his novel, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke envisioned a world challenged by the discovery of an alien 'other.' As we reach the actual year 2001, it is clear that we are in constant contact with an even more difficult 'other'—those people with whom we share an increasingly small and interdependent planet who are not only not us but also not like us. To a very large extent, the quality of our lives depends on our willingness and ability to communicate dialogically with them.…What is needed, and what [this book] provides, are guides for moving forward together." — from the Foreword by Barnett Pearce