Communication Ethics and the Political: The Case of Sovereignty

• In Event: Stability and Change in Communication Ethics: Truth, Civility and Sovereignty

Abstract

In this paper I pursue the following line of argument: (a) that the normative ideal of sovereignty has always been transgressed by powerful entities, (b) that normative definitions of sovereignty should give way to a situated and contingent construct, (c) that this requires a relational constitutive philosophy and ethics of communication.

Author

• Stephen Konieczka, University of Colorado, Boulder