Meta-dialogue and meta-discourse?

The Consensus Delusion (Part #6)

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The question is then: through what mode of discourse can the nature of the delusion be appropriately acknowledged in order to address the challenge of moving beyond it? Does the exploration of "meta-discourse" and "meta-dialogue" offer any possibilities?

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• Brian Donovan: Advice to College Writers: On Meta-Discourse
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• Jürgen Hargens and Uwe Grau: Meta-dialogue, Contemporary Family Therapy, 16, 6, December, 1994, pp. 451-462
• Maurice A. Finocchiaro: Arguments, Meta-arguments, and Metadialogues: A Reconstruction of Krabbe, Govier, and Woods. Argumentation, 21, 3, September 2007, pp. 253-268
• Peter Houtlosser1 and Jan Albert van Laar1: Metadialogues: Krabbe's Immanent Dialectic, Argumentation, 21, 3, September, 2007, pp. 205-208

What role can "critical thinking" play? Or the initiatives of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation ?

Ironically the specialists in delusion whose views might be valued -- namely the various disciplines and practices of the psychological sciences and therapies -- are as mired in problematic dynamics between each other as any other discipline. They are quite incapable of doing more than recognizing the limitations of the other, and celebrating their own particular insight. Worse still, they are not capable of addressing their own condition -- anymore than are their typical clients. (cf. James Hillman and Michael Ventura, We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy -- And the World's Getting Worse, 1993)

Possible ways of framing a more fruitful exploration have been explored through metaphor (Metaphorical Geometry in Quest of Globality in response to global governance challenges, 2009). These may be variously understood as a challenge to the imagination (Imagining the Real Challenge and Realizing the Imaginal Pathway of Sustainable Transformation, 2007; Living as an Imaginal Bridge between Worlds: Global implications of "betwixt and between" and liminality, 2011; Imaginal education: Game playing, science fiction, language, art and world-making, 2003).

Understandably, the young will have every right to reject integrative strategies which have a long record of demonstrating incapacity to reframe strategic challenges such as to enable higher orders of meaningful consensus (Sustaining Higher Orders of Policy Consensus through Metaphor: towards a new language of governance, 1992).

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