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Speaking, Actually: Towards a New 'Fluid' Common-Sense Understanding of Relational Becomings

Author(s) : John Shotter

Table of Contents

Prologue: Turning Things Back-To-Front, and Inside Out

1. Our Current ‘Newtonian-Cartesian’ Common-Sense
2. What Is Common to Us All Before We Turn to ‘The Sciences’ - The Problem of Fragmentation
3. On Our Nature as Personal Beings, as Bio-Social Becomings
4. On the Priority of the I-Thou Over the I-It Symbolic Forms
5. Preconceptual Speaking - Making a ‘Difference That Matters to Us’ With Words
6. The Primacy: Of ‘Specifically: Vague’ Movements of Feeling
7. Satisfying Our ‘Desires’ Is Optional, Gratifying Our ‘Real Needs’ Is Not
8. Keeping on ‘Speaking Terms’ With Our Circumstances - The Strange Nature of the ‘Present Moment’...
9. Reversals - ‘Particular Detailed Beginnings’ Are More Important Than ‘Final­Ized Generalities’
10. The Amazingness of the Ordinary - Love, Actually
11. A Unifying, ‘Before-The-Fact’ Philosophy

Last Words: Doing More Together Than We Can Do Apart
Just One More Thing... The Primacy of the Improbable, the Unique, the Singular
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