Speaking hermeneutically : understanding in the conduct of a life / John Arthos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arthos, John, 1956-

Series:

Studies in rhetoric/communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric--History.

Rhetoric.

Rhetoric--Theory, etc.

Hermeneutics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia, SC : University of South Carolina Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Arthos adapts the hermeneutics of Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Paul Ricoeur to a series of classic rhetorical texts and landmark political moments, modeling the revitalized interchange of traditions in a way that will be accessible to scholars and students in both fields of inquiry.

Contents:

"We can not consecrate": between word and flesh

The space of deliberation and the time of decision: discursive reciprocities of self and world

Transitive agency: between person and text

The history and structure of the circle

Thinking out loud: the involutions of Newman's mind

Instigating the event of understanding: John Jay Chapman in public and private

In the garden of the Tuileries: the circularity of narrative understanding

The hermeneutic text: "an infinite web of motivations"

Three distances

A house divided: contingent judgment and rhetorical competence

John Brown's body: pathologies of the social imaginary.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613915948

9781283603492

1283603497

9781611172065

1611172063

OCLC:

810125034