Listening to the Otherness of the Other: Envisioning Listening Based on a Hermeneutical Reading of Lévinas

Koskinen, Camilla; Lindström, Unni Å.

doi:10.1080/10904018.2013.813259

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“…Dialogue also includes the art of listening, which is of importance from a care ethics perspective and is part of serving, in the sense of sensitivity and real presence in the meeting with patients (cf. Salmela , Koskinen & Lindström , Honkavuo ).…”

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Nurse leaders as managers of ethically sustainable caring cultures

Salmela

Koskinen

Eriksson

2016

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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The basis of good care, patient safety and sustainability is comprised of ethics with a respectful and dignified care that is evidence-based and economically stable. Through their management NLs have a responsibility to nurture and protect the core of caring and create contextual, professional and cultural prerequisites to maintain the core and art of caring as well as care staff's ethical and professional competence.

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confidence: 99%

Nurse leaders as managers of ethically sustainable caring cultures

Salmela

Koskinen

Eriksson

2016

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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“…Levinas states that separation is what creates room and gives room for the other and that it is only by total openness for the other's differences that we find ethical knowing. The choice to listen to Levinas ethical claims gives application research a special ethical keynote which means that understanding always goes beyond self‐understanding. Ethics is about placing the other above ourselves and incorporating the other in our own lives.…”

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Hermeneutic application research – finding a common understanding and consensus on care and caring

PhD

Nyström

2015

Scandinavian Caring Sciences

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To clinically and contextually implement the theoretical and factual knowledge of care and caring that has been developed in the last 30 years is seen as a great challenge in caring science research. Emphasis has been put on problem-solving research methodologies and action research in hopes of narrowing the divide between caring theory and clinical practice. Thus, the intention is now to further action research towards a hermeneutic approach and to put emphasis on hermeneutic application where theory and praxis become one through human dialogue. This article highlights hermeneutic application research as an alternative methodology within participatory-oriented research which presents a new opportunity to unite clinical practice and caring theory. The aim is to contribute to the development of the hermeneutical application research design in its epistemological, ontological and ethical perspective, by articulating and clarifying the central foundations in the application. On the basis of Gadamer's hermeneutical thinking and Levinas ethical thinking, the central foundations in the application research are ethics, creation of a hermeneutical room, dialogue and common understanding and appropriation and action. When theoretical understanding turns into praxis, knowledge also becomes activity and theory and practice become one. Application thus realises the basic idea that praxis and theory are one, and thus, theory of caring can only become evident and implemented in a clinical practice through moments when the participants find a common understanding and consensus on the knowledge of care and caring.

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“…To respond to one another, we first have to come close and listen because other people are always different from ourselves and impossible to completely understand. According to Koskinen and Lindström (2013), listening means inviting someone else into a community, getting to know them, and being moved by the difference of the other. Guvå and Hylander (2012) state that by listening to the participant's expressions and asking challenging questions the facillitators may both confirm and guide to the participants to further reflections.…”

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Communicative and organizational aspects of clinical ethics support

Grönlund

Söderberg

Dahlqvist

et al. 2018

Journal of Interprofessional Care

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Studies show that healthcare professionals need inter-professional clinical ethics support (CES) in order to communicate and reflect on ethically difficult care situations that they experience in their clinical practice. Internationally, various CES interventions have been performed, but the communication processes and organisation of these interventions are rarely described in detail. The aim of this study was to explore communicative and organisational conditions of a CES intervention with the intention of promoting inter-professional communication about ethically difficult care situations. Eight audio-and video-recorded inter-professional CES sessions, inspired by Habermas' theory of communicative actions, were conducted. The observations were transcribed, sorted, and analysed using concept-and datadriven content analysis methods. The findings show three approaches to promoting communicative agreement, which include the CES facilitators' and participants' approaches to promoting a permissive communication, extended views, and mutual understanding. The CES sessions had organizational aspects for facilitating communicative agreement with both a given structure and openness for variation. The dynamic structure of the organization, promoted both safety and stability as well as a creativity and responsiveness, which in turn opened up for a free and dynamic inter-professional dialogue concerning ethically difficult care situations. The findings constitute a step towards a theory-based CES method inspired by Habermas' theory of communicative action. Further research is needed in order to fully develop the method and obtain increased knowledge about how to promote an interprofessional dialogue about ethically difficulties.

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Listening to the Otherness of the Other: Envisioning Listening Based on a Hermeneutical Reading of Lévinas

Cited by 12 publications

References 21 publications

Nurse leaders as managers of ethically sustainable caring cultures

Nurse leaders as managers of ethically sustainable caring cultures

Hermeneutic application research – finding a common understanding and consensus on care and caring

Communicative and organizational aspects of clinical ethics support

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