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Questioning the tradition of individual responsibility, this pioneering book also transforms the concept of responsibility by giving centre stage to the relational process rather than to the individual - replacing alienation and isolation with meaningful dialogue. The first three chapters are the editors' own contribution on relational responsibility - followed by their analysis of a challenging case study involving the issue of child sexual abuse. The next 14 chapters contain responses from leading academics and professionals in the fields of communication, psychology and organizational development, which extend the editors' original dialogue. In conclusion, Sheila McNamee and Kenneth Gergen illustrate relational responsi
Creating Relational Realities: Responsible Responding to Poetic ‘Movements’ and ‘Moments’
Creating Relational Realities: Responsible Responding to Poetic ‘Movements’ and ‘Moments’
A[n] executant [is] one who “acts out” the material before him (sic) so as to give it intelligible life … the executant invests his own being in the process of interpretation. His readings, his enactments of chosen meanings and values, are not those of external survey. They are a commitment at risk, a response which is, in the root sense, responsible.
The “otherness” which enters into us makes us other.
But as all severoll soules contain
Mixture of things, they know not what,
Love, these mixt soules, doth mixe againe,
And makes both one, each this and that …
When love, with one another so
Interanimates two ...
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