Learning to Disagree
eBook - ePub

Learning to Disagree

The Surprising Path to Navigating Differences with Empathy and Respect

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Learning to Disagree

The Surprising Path to Navigating Differences with Empathy and Respect

About this book

Are you discouraged by our divided, angry culture, where even listening to a different perspective sometimes feels impossible? If so, you're not alone, and it doesn't have to be this way. Learning to Disagree reveals the surprising path to learning how to disagree in ways that build new bridges with our neighbors, coworkers, and loved ones--and help us find better ways to live joyfully in a complex society.

In a tense cultural climate, is it possible to disagree productively and respectfully without compromising our convictions? Spanning a range of challenging issues--including critical race theory, sexual assault, campus protests, and clashes over religious freedom--highly regarded thought leader and law professor John Inazu helps us engage honestly and empathetically with people whose viewpoints we find strange, wrong, or even dangerous.

As a constitutional scholar, legal expert, and former litigator, John has spent his career learning how to disagree well with other people. In Learning to Disagree, John shares memorable stories and draws on the practices that legal training imparts--seeing the complexity in every issue and inhabiting the mindset of an opposing point of view--to help us handle daily encounters and lifelong relationships with those who see life very differently than we do.

This groundbreaking, poignant, and highly practical book equips us to:

  • Understand what holds us back from healthy disagreement
  • Learn specific, start-today strategies for dialoguing clearly and authentically
  • Move from stuck, broken disagreements to mature, healthy disagreements
  • Cultivate empathy as a core skill for our personal lives and our whole society

 

If you are feeling exhausted from the tattered state of dialogue in your social media feed, around the country, and in daily conversations, you're not alone. Discover a more connected life while still maintaining the strength of your convictions through this unique, often-humorous, thought-provoking, and ultimately life-changing exploration of the best way to disagree.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword by Tish Harrison Warren
  6. Preface
  7. August: How Do We Learn Empathy?
  8. September: Can We Know What’s Fair?
  9. October: What Happens When We Can’t Compromise?
  10. November: Can We Have Difficult Conversations?
  11. December: Can We See People Instead of Problems?
  12. January: Can We Trust Faith?
  13. February: Can Anything Be Neutral?
  14. March: Where Is the Line between Wrong and Evil?
  15. April: Is Forgiveness Possible?
  16. May: Can We Be Friends?
  17. Epilogue: Asking the Right Question
  18. Reflection Guide
  19. Acknowledgments
  20. Notes
  21. Epigraphs