Abstract
Explanations of the cause of the Challenger disaster by the Presidential Commission and by communication scholars are flawed. These explanations are characterized by a common tendency to emphasize the technical and procedural aspects of organizational life at the expense of the cognitive and ethical. Rightly construed, the Challenger disaster illustrates both the need for a revived art of rhetoric and the importance of putting in place the political and social conditions that make this art efficacious in furthering cognitive understanding and ethical conduct.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 75-93 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Argumentation |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1997 |
Keywords
- Challenger
- Ethics
- Habermas
- Organizations
- Political theory
- Rhetorical theory