Mackin's work makes a meaningful contribution to the field by elaborating an ecological perspective within the context of the issues and traditions now animating communication ethics. This book deserves the attention of those who wish to learn what the best of the postmodernists have to teach us without giving up the sense of communal responsibility that has distinguished the best ... Read moreof the rhetorical tradition.
John R. Lyne, University of Pittsburgh Mackin has the intelligence and the forbearance to scrutinize seriously the multi-faceted critique of dogmatic humanism. But he has the courage and common sense not to give in to its hopelessness, insisting that we can build better communities that nurture happier individuals through ethical communication. For all who want to make something good from the fragments of the postmodern condition, this book is an inspiration. We have needed it for a long time.
Janice Rushing, author of Erotic Mentoring: Women's Transformations in the University and coauthor of Projecting the Shadow: The Cyborg Hero in American Film Show Less