On Dialogue

In this pathbreaking and insightful book, Robert Grudin reveals how the use of dialogue can open the door to greater creativity. Ranging across a wide spectrum of examples, from Renaissance art to modern science, from the feedback loops of the natural world to the ordinary human interactions of daily life, the author provides new ideas and makes new connections for readers seeking to liberate themselves from the constraints of conventional thought. Of intense interest to academic specialists in philosophy and cognitive studies, the book is also of immediate practical use to general readers. On Dialogue represents the third in the trilogy of philosophical essays that began with Time and the Art of Living and continued with The Grace of Great Things, both of which are available in Houghton Mifflin paperback editions.