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The concept of judgment has occupied a place of special importance in the tradition of Western thought. In antiquity and especially in the Enlightenment, judgment served as the rubric under which Western thinkers struggled to come to terms with how the world of human concerns is constituted in thought and, perhaps more important, how humans call for timely and appropriate actions. Recently, judgment has again emerged as a highly contestatory site for philosophical, rhetorical, and cultural reflection and inquiry.This book puts into contact a variety of responses to the question of judgment in a postmodern age, seeking out the question of how, once solid ground is pulled out from underneath the position of the judge, one continues to ?tread? judgment, to meet obligations while remaining afloat.The essays in this edited volume investigate judgment as a rhetorical problem to be discussed philosophically and examines the standards by which judgments are made and can be made in contemporary culture. The essays clarify the links between rhetoric and judgment as they are played out on public and meta-critical levels.
List of contents
* Hopes Finitude: An Introduction James P. McDaniel and John M. Sloop Judgment And The Theoretical Quagmire * Phronesis in the Gadamer Versus Habermas Debates Michael Calvin McGee * Judgment and the Problem of Agency/Accountability: A Postcolonial Critique of Poststructuralist Theory K. E. Supriya * Decentering Judgment: Toward a Postmodern Communication Ethic Martha Cooper * Judgment and Jouissance: Eliot, Freud, and Lacan Read Hamlet Susan Schwartz * More Than Meets the Eye: An Expos on Patriotic Libido and Judgment at the Level of the Image in American War Culture James P. McDaniel Case Studies In Treading Judgment * Had Judas Been a Black Man...: Politics, Race, and Gender in African America Karen L. Dace * The Fictions of Racialized Identities Marouf A. Hasian, Jr. and Thomas K. Nakayama * Judging Parents Ronald Walter Greene and Darrin Hicks * Property and Propriety: Rhetoric, Justice, and Lyotards Diffrend Maurice Charland * Afterward: Justifying, Positioning, Persuading in the Intermediate World Robert Hariman
About the author
John M. Sloop is Professor and Chair-elect of the Department of Communication Studies and Theatre at Vanderbilt University and author of Disciplining Gender: Rhetorics of Sex Identity in Contemporary U.S. Culture.
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The concept of judgment has occupied a place of special importance in the tradition of Western thought
