| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 468 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Rhetoric / Stanley Fish -- Contingency of language / Richard Rorty -- Short history of rhetoric / Terry Eagleton -- Language obscures social change / Melanie Eckford-Prossor and Michael Clifford -- Toward a "materialist" rhetoric: contingency, constraint, and the eighteenth-century crowd / Michael Hill -- Decentered subject of feminism: postfeminism and Thelma and Louise / Linda Frost -- Habermas's rational-critical sphere and the problem of criteria / Patricia Roberts -- Foundational thuggery and a rhetoric of subsumption / Frank Farmer -- Hymes, Rorty, and the social-rhetorical construction of meaning / Robert E. Smith III -- "Too little care": language, politics, and embodiment in the life-world / Kurt Spellmeyer -- History and the real / Charles Sheperdson -- Subject of invention: antifoundationalism and medieval hermeneutics / Richard R. Glejzer -- Royal road: Marxism and the philosophy of science / Michael Sprinker -- Beyond antifoundationalism to rhetorical authority: problems defining "cultural literacy" / Patricia Bizzell -- Composition studies and cultural studies: collapsing boundaries / James A. Berlin -- What we need to know about writing and reading, or Peter Elbow and antifoundationalism / Ellen Gardiner -- Teaching as a test of knowledge: passion, desire, and the semblance of truth in teaching / David Metzger -- Composition in an antifoundational world: a critique and a proposal / Michael Bernard-Donals |
| Summary |
In this collection, literary scholars, philosophers, and teachers inquire into the connections between antifoundational philosophy and the rhetorical tradition. What happens to literary studies and theory when traditional philosophical foundations are disavowed? What happens to the study of teaching and writing when antifoundationalism is accepted? What strategies for human understanding are possible when the weaknesses of antifoundationalism are identified? This volume offers answers in classic essays by such thinkers as Richard Rorty, Terry Eagleton, and Stanley Fish, and in many new essays never published before |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching.
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Language and culture -- English-speaking countries
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English language -- Rhetoric.
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Report writing -- Study and teaching
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Language and languages -- Philosophy.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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epistemology.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
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English language -- Rhetoric.
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English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching.
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Language and culture.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Language and languages -- Philosophy.
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Rhetorik
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Report writing -- Study and teaching.
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Postmodernisme.
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Pragmatik
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Retorica.
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Pragmatik.
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Rhetorik.
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English-speaking countries.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bernard-Donals, Michael F
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Glejzer, Richard R
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| ISBN |
9780300146578 |
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0300146574 |
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