MacDonald, MN;
O'Regan, JP;
(2009)
The Ethics of Intercultural Dialogue.
Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia: Honululu, HI, USA.
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Abstract
Intercultural communication aims to educate people towards open positions of dialogue with others from different spaces within the supranational public sphere. This paper addresses three issues arising from this: the possibility of an emancipatory transformational consciousness; the existence of a transcendental moral signified against which ethical judgements can be measured; and in the absence of this, the consequent projection of intercultural dialogue towards cultural relativism. We argue (after Levinas and Derrida) it is through responsibility that ‘non-normative’ ethical judgements become possible. This entails determining whether putting a particular discourse or set of discourses into practice might lead to a silencing of open alternatives. These enable intercultural communication to locate itself in opposition to practices of closure and intolerance, while simultaneously exercising reflexive support for more open alternatives.
| Type: | Working / discussion paper |
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| Title: | The Ethics of Intercultural Dialogue |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://pesa.org.au/ |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. // Working paper presented at 38th Annual Meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia, Imin International Conference Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (December 3 to 6, 2009) |
| Keywords: | Relativism, Totality, Presence, Transformation, Truth, Responsibility, Intercultural Communication, Ethics |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10085004 |
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