Meeting place : the human encounter and the challenge of coexistence
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Meeting place : the human encounter and the challenge of coexistence
University of Minnesota Press, c2013
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Summary on back cover: In this remarkable and often dazzling book, Paul Carter explores the conditions for sociability in a globalized future. He argues that we make many assumptions about communication but overlook barriers to understanding between strangers as well as the importance of improvisation in overcoming these obstacles to meeting. While disciplines such as sociology, legal studies, psychology, political theory, and even urban planning treat meeting as a good in its own right, they fail to provide a model of what makes meeting possible and worth pursuing: a yearning for encounter. Carther offers novel ways of presenting the philosophical dimensions of waiting, meeting, and nonmeeting
Includes bibliographical references and index
