Introduction: In-between philosophy and communication studies / Ramsey Eric Ramsey -- PART I. CONVERSATION AS INVITATION TO DIALOGUE -- From the loving struggle to the struggle to love: a conversation with Calvin O. Schrag / Ramsey Eric Ramsey, David James Miller -- PART II. PUBLICS AND THEIR PROBLEMS -- Communicative praxis and collective decision making: from phenomenology to the politics of experience to dialogic constitutive practices / Stanley Deetz, Amy Grim, Alexander Lyon -- Limitations of the public sphere: the repressive voice of modernity / Raymie McKerrow -- Transversing dualisms and situating the embodied self in organizational theory and practice / Majia Holmer Nadesan -- PART III. ON GIVING AND SUFFERING -- Gift of acknowledgment / Michael J. Hyde -- Awaiting the year of the donkey / Stephen Pluhโa้cek -- On hearing the call: from the pain of affliction toward healing / David James Miller, Michael J. Millington -- PART IV. PHILOSOPHIZING THE IN-BETWEEN -- Feminism after postmodernity: some places of narrative in communicative praxis / Dennis K. Mumby -- Epistemology, tropology, hermeneutics, and the "essence of language" / Lenore Langsdorf -- Procreation in a beautiful medium: eroticizing the vectors of communicative praxis / Ramsey Eric Ramsey