On Dialogue (Routledge Classics)

Cover; On Dialogue; Copyright; CONTENTS; PREFACE TO THE ROUTLEDGE CLASSICS EDITION; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 ON COMMUNICATION; 2 ON DIALOGUE; 3 THE NATURE OF COLLECTIVE THOUGHT; 4 THE PROBLEM AND THE PARADOX; 5 THE OBSERVER AND THE OBSERVED; 6 SUSPENSION, THE BODY, AND PROPRIOCEPTION; 7 PARTICIPATORY THOUGHT AND THE UNLIMITED; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.;Never before has there been a greater need for deeper listening and more open communication to cope with the complex problems facing our organizations, businesses and societies. Renowned scientist David Bohm believed there was a better way for humanity to discover meaning and to achieve harmony. He identified creative dialogue, a sharing of assumptions and understanding, as a means by which the individual, and society as a whole, can learn more about themselves and others, and achieve a renewed sense of purpose. `During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, television, air travel and satellites has woven a network of communications which puts each part of the world into almost instant contact with all the other parts. Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at every moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale.'[Bohm]The question of how we can communicate better is at the heart of On Dialogue. This is the most comprehensive documentation to date of best-selling author David Bohm's dialogical world view. "Never before has there been a greater need for deeper listening and more open communication to cope with the complex problems facing our organizations, businesses and societies. Renowned scientist David Bohm believed there was a better way for humanity to discover meaning and to achieve harmony. He identified creative dialogue, a sharing of assumptions and understanding, as a means by which the individual, and society as a whole, can learn more about themselves and others, and achieve a renewed sense of purpose"--Amazon.com

Never before has there been a greater need for deeper listening and more open communication to cope with the complex problems facing our organizations, businesses and societies. Renowned scientist David Bohm believed there was a better way for humanity to discover meaning and to achieve harmony. He identified creative dialogue, a sharing of assumptions and understanding, as a means by which the individual, and society as a whole, can learn more about themselves and others, and achieve a renewed sense of purpose.

Whilst the exercise of dialogue is as old as civilisation itself, in recent times a profusion of practices, techniques and definitions has arisen around the term 'dialogue'. This edition illuminates Bohm's dialogical world view