Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism

Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Steven Mailloux, Steven (University of California Mailloux
• Collaboration: Anthony Cascardi (Editeur), Richard Macksey (Editeur), Steven Mailloux (Editeur)
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 18.05.1995
• EAN: 9780521467803
• ISBN: 978-0-521-46780-3
• Pages: 264
• Thème: Literature, Culture, Theory
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Philosophie: de l'Antiquité à nos jours; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée