Political Ideology in Listening and Ethics

• In Event: Scholar to Scholar VII
  In Paper Session: Ethics and (of) Listening

Abstract

This paper situates Bernard L. Brock, Mark E. Huglen, James F. Klumpp, and Sharon Howell’s theory of political ideology in the literature of listening and ethics. Political ideology functions as a filter for listeners, creating differing degrees of dialectical and dialogical conditions dependent upon the grades of difference among the ideologies. Tensions arise among listeners because of the differences among ideologies. This paper considers such tensions as dialectic/competitive and dialogic/cooperative materializations of social reality. The materializations are, in part, predetermined and self-generated by the listeners and function to determine the nature of the constructed reality and the nature of the potential response.

Author

• Mark Huglen, University of Minnesota, Crookston