ABSTRACT
In this and the next chapter, we turn from strings that fashion thinking as an indi-
vidual enterprise and toward strings that refashion it into a social and largely
cooperative one. We also move from strings that hold the audience at arm’s
length in the role of unacknowledged eavesdropper and toward strings that
acknowledge and even address an audience as an interactive presence. More
specifically, the strings we review fall under a second major cluster, strings
implementing a relational perspective, or relational strings for short.
