Meeting Place by Paul Carter - 9780816685394

Meeting PlaceThe Human Encounter and the Challenge of Coexistence\nAuthor(s): Paul Carter\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816685394, 978-0816685394\nSynopsis\nIn this remarkable and often dazzling book, Paul Carter explores the conditions for sociability in a globalized future. He argues that we make many assumptions about communication but overlook barriers to understanding between strangers as well as the importance of improvisation in overcoming these obstacles to meeting. While disciplines such as sociology, legal studies, psychology, political theory, and even urban planning treat meeting as a good in its own right, they fail to provide a model of what makes meeting possible and worth pursuing: a yearning for encounter.\n\nThe volumes central narrative-between Northern cultural philosophers and Australian societies-traverses the troubled history of misinterpretation that is characte.