Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism

The contribution of rhetoric, sophistry, and pragmatism to postmodernist cultural politics.

List of contents

Introduction: sophistry and rhetorical pragmatism Steven Mailloux; 1. Isocrates' philosophia and contemporary pragmatism Edward Schiappa; 2. The degradation of rhetoric; or, dressing like a gentleman, speaking like a scholar Jasper Neel; 3. Antilogics, dialogics, and sophistic social psychology: Michael Billig's reinvention of Bakhtin from Protagorean rhetoric Don H. Bialostosky; 4. The 'genealogies' of pragmatism Tom Cohen; 5. Philosophy in the 'new' rhetoric, rhetoric in the 'new' philosophy Joseph Margolis; 6. Individual feeling and universal validity Charlene Haddock Seigfried and Hans Seigfried; 7. Pragmatism, rhetoric and The American Scene Giles Gunn; 8. The political consequences of pragmatism; or, cultural pragmatics for a cybernetic revolution David B. Downing; 9. In excess: radical extensions of neopragmatism Susan Jarratt; Selected bibliographies: Rhetoric and recent critical theory; Re-interpretations of the Greek sophists; Developments in the pragmatist tradition.

Summary

The pragmatist tradition, which began with the Older Sophists of Ancient Greece, has attracted new interest in the context of postmodernist thought. This volume explores ways in which rhetoric, sophistry, and pragmatism contribute to rethinking the human sciences and cultural politics.

Product details

• Assisted by: Steven Mailloux (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.09.2014
• EAN: 9780521462259
• ISBN: 978-0-521-46225-9
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 508 g
• Series: Literature, Culture, Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day