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The Life-Giving Gift of Acknowledgement (Philosophy/Communication) (repost)

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The Life-Giving Gift of Acknowledgement (Philosophy/Communication) (repost)

The Life-Giving Gift of Acknowledgement (Philosophy/Communication)
Publisher: Purdue University Press | ISBN 10: 1557534020 | 2005 | PDF | 336 pages | 2.1 MB

What would life be like if no one acknowledged your existence? The question confronts one with the possibility of being isolated, marginalized, ignored, and forgotten by others. The unacknowledged find themselves in an "out-of-the-way" place where it is hard or human beings, given their social instinct, to feel at home. The suffering that can accompany this way of being-in-the-world is known to bring about fear, anxiety, sadness, anger, and sometimes even death in the form of suicide or retaliation against those who are rightly or wrongly accused of making one's life so lonely, miserable, and unbearable. Acknowledgment provides an opening out of such a distressful situation, for the act of acknowledging is a communicative and rhetorical behavior that grants attention to others and thereby makes room for them in our lives. With this added living space comes the opportunity for a new beginning, a "second chance" whereby one might improve his or her lot in life.