Postmodern Sophistry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Postmodern Sophistry write by Gary A. Olson. This book was released on 2006-01-01. Postmodern Sophistry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fifteen prominent scholars from a range of academic disciplines—legal studies, critical legal studies, political science, Jewish studies, rhetoric, and literary studies—explore various aspects of cultural and literary critic Stanley Fish's work. They examine Fish's understanding of how interpretation functions, the various philosophical issues that Fish has addressed or failed to address in his work, and the political consequences of Fish's thought. Stanley Fish responds to the ideas put forth in this book in a detailed Afterword.
Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism
Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism write by Steven Mailloux. This book was released on 1995-05-18. Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The anti-sceptical relativism and self-conscious rhetoric of the pragmatist tradition, which began with the Older Sophists of Ancient Greece and developed through an American tradition including William James and John Dewey has attracted new attention in the context of late twentieth-century postmodernist thought. At the same time there has been a more general renewal of interest across a wide range of humanistic and social science disciplines in rhetoric itself: language use, writing and speaking, persuasion, figurative language, and the effect of texts. This book, written by leading scholars, explores the various ways in which rhetoric, sophistry and pragmatism overlap in their current theoretical and political implications, and demonstrates how they contribute both to a rethinking of the human sciences within the academy and to larger debates over cultural politics.
Seduction, Sophistry, and the Woman with the Rhetorical Figure
Seduction, Sophistry, and the Woman with the Rhetorical Figure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Seduction, Sophistry, and the Woman with the Rhetorical Figure write by Michelle Ballif. This book was released on 2001. Seduction, Sophistry, and the Woman with the Rhetorical Figure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Ballif questions why the profession wants to retain these beliefs in the face of vociferous arguments from "new rhetorics" that the discipline no longer posits a foundational self or truth, and in the face of the poststructuralist critique, which has demonstrated that founding truth is always accomplished by first positing and then negating an "other." As an alternative to this negative and violent rhetorical process, Ballif suggests a turn to sophistry as embodied in the figure of Woman, one with the power to seduce us (literally, to lead astray) from our truth and our demand for it."--BOOK JACKET.
Stanley Fish on Philosophy, Politics and Law
Stanley Fish on Philosophy, Politics and Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stanley Fish on Philosophy, Politics and Law write by Michael Robertson. This book was released on 2014-08-07. Stanley Fish on Philosophy, Politics and Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fish's writings on philosophy, politics and law comprise numerous books and articles produced over many decades. This book connects those dots in order to reveal the overall structure of his argument and to demonstrate how his work in politics and law flows logically from his philosophical stands on the nature of the self, epistemology and the role of theory. Michael Robertson considers Fish's political critiques of liberalism, critical theory, postmodernism and pragmatism before turning to his observations on political substance and political practice. The detailed analysis of Fish's jurisprudence explores his relationships to legal positivism, legal formalism, legal realism and critical legal studies, as well as his debate with Ronald Dworkin. Gaps and inconsistencies in Fish's arguments are fully explored, and the author provides a description of Fish's own positive account of law and deals with the charge that Fish is an indeterminacy theorist who undermines the rule of law.
Cynicism and Postmodernity
Cynicism and Postmodernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cynicism and Postmodernity write by Timothy Bewes. This book was released on 1997-05-17. Cynicism and Postmodernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this original and provocative book, Timothy Bewes descends into the modern cynical consciousness with a critical assessment of the preoccupations of contemporary society.
