Title Human communication as narration : toward a philosophy of reason, value, and action / by Walter R. Fisher

Published Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, [1987] ©1987

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Description xiv, 201 pages ; 24 cm Series Studies in rhetoric/communication Studies in rhetoric/communication. Contents Foreword -- Afterword -- Preface -- Part I : The historical exigence -- In the beginning. From philosophy to technical discourse ; Voices on behalf of poetic ; Voices on behalf of rhetoric -- Connection with logic. Dialogue, dialectic, and logic ; Aristotle : the beginnings of technical and rhetorical logic ; Technical logic : handmaiden of learned discourse ; Rhetorical logic : handmaiden of public discourse ; From geometry and mathematics to language and jurisprudence ; Narrative rationality as a rhetorical logic -- Part II : The narrative paradigm and related theories -- Narration as a paradigm of human communication ; The rational-world paradigm ; The narrative paradigm ; A case : public moral argument -- An elaboration. Relationships to other theories ; Social-scientific theories and the narrative paradigm ; Humanistic theories and the narrative paradigm -- Part III : Narrative rationality, good reason, and audiences -- Assessing narrative fidelity : the logic of good reasons. The meaning of "logic" ; Good reasons ; The logic of good reasons ; Criterial analysis ; Hierarchies of values ; Rationality and rhetorical competence -- Narrative rationality and qualities of audiences. Philosophical, political, and personal characterists of audiences ; Justice : the motivational characteristic ; Critical rationalism : the competence characteristic ; Concepts of audiences reconsidered -- Part IV : Application -- Narrativity and politics : the case of Ronald Reagan. Reagan's rhetoric ; Reagan's story ; Reagan's character ; Reagan's implied audience -- Argument in drama and literature. Rhetoric, poetic, and aesthetic proof ; Argument in Death of a Salesman ; Argument in The Great Gatsby -- Choosing between Socrates and Callicles : an assessment of philosophcal discourse. Socrates' story ; Callicles' story ; Choosing between Socrates and Callicles -- In retrospect Bibliography Includes bibliographies and indexes Subject Communication -- Philosophy. Logic. Narration (Rhetoric) Reasoning. Rhetoric. LC no. 86030830 ISBN 0872495000 0872496244 (paperback)

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