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.
Pragmatism, Democracy, and the Necessity of Rhetoric
Pragmatism, Democracy, and the Necessity of Rhetoric - 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 Pragmatism, Democracy, and the Necessity of Rhetoric write by Robert Danisch. This book was released on 2007. Pragmatism, Democracy, and the Necessity of Rhetoric available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Pragmatism, Democracy, and the Necessity of Rhetoric, Robert Danisch examines the search by America's first generation of pragmatists for a unique set of rhetorics that would serve the needs of a developing democracy. Digging deep into pragmatism's historical development, Danisch sheds light on its association with an alternative but significant and often overlooked tradition. He draws parallels between the rhetorics of such American pragmatists as John Dewey and Jane Addams and those of the ancient Greek tradition. Danisch contends that, while building upon a classical foundation, pragmatism sought to determine rhetorical responses to contemporary irresolutions. rhetoric, including pragmatism's rejection of philosophy with its traditional assumptions and practices. Grounding his argument on an
Reception Histories
Reception Histories - 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 Reception Histories write by Steven Mailloux. This book was released on 2018-09-05. Reception Histories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In his earlier Rhetorical Power, Steven Mailloux presented an innovative and challenging strategy for combining critical theory and cultural studies. That book has stimulated wide-ranging discussion and debate among diverse audiences—students and specialists in American studies, speech communications, rhetoric/composition, law, education, biblical studies, and especially literary theory and cultural criticism. Reception Histories marks a further development of Mailloux's influential critical project, as he demonstrates how rhetorical hermeneutics uses rhetoric to practice theory by doing history. Reception Histories works out in detail what rhetorical hermeneutics means in terms of poststructuralist theory (Part One), nineteenth-century U.S. cultural studies (Part Two), and the contemporary history of curricular reform within the so-called Culture Wars (Part Three). Mailloux situates, defends, and elaborates the theory he first proposed in Rhetorical Power, and he exemplifies it with a new series of provocative reception histories. He also both critiques and reconceptualizes the version of reader response criticism he developed in his first book, Interpretive Conventions. Throughout Reception Histories, Mailloux demonstrates his distinctive blend of neopragmatism and cultural rhetoric study. By tracing the rhetorical paths of thought, this book offers a new way to read the current volatile debates over higher education and contributes its own original proposals for shaping the future of the humanities.
Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric
Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric - 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 Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric write by Bruce McComiskey. This book was released on 2002. Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric, Bruce McComiskey achieves three rhetorical goals: he treats a single sophist's rhetorical technê (art) in the context of the intellectual upheavals of fifth-century bce Greece, thus avoiding the problem of generalizing about a disparate group of individuals; he argues that we must abandon Platonic assumptions regarding the sophists in general and Gorgias in particular, opting instead for a holistic reading of the Gorgianic fragments; and he reexamines the practice of appropriating sophistic doctrines, particularly those of Gorgias, in light of the new interpretation of Gorgianic rhetoric offered in this book. In the first two chapters, McComiskey deals with a misconception based on selective and Platonic readings of the extant fragments: that Gorgias's rhetorical technê involves the deceptive practice of manipulating public opinion. This popular and ultimately misleading interpretation of Gorgianic doctrines has been the basis for many neosophistic appropriations. The final three chapters deal with the nature and scope of neosophistic rhetoric in light of the non-Platonic and holistic interpretation of Gorgianic rhetoric McComiskey postulates in his opening chapters. He concludes by examining the future of communication studies to discover what roles neosophistic doctrines might play in the twenty-first century. McComiskey also provides a selective bibliography of scholarship on sophistic rhetoric and philosophy in English since 1900.
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.
