Rhetoric, modality, modernity / Nancy S. Struever.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Struever, Nancy S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Modern.

Enlightenment.

Rhetoric.

Modality (Theory of knowledge).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (170 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since antiquity, philosophy and rhetoric have traditionally been cast as rivals, with the former often lauded as a search for logical truth and the latter usually disparaged as empty speech. But in this erudite intellectual history, Nancy S. Struever stakes out a claim for rhetoric as the more productive form of inquiry. Struever views rhetoric through the lens of modality, arguing that rhetoric's guiding interest in what is possible-as opposed to philosophy's concern with what is necessary-makes it an ideal tool for understanding politics. Innovative readings of Hob

Contents:

Introduction : the classical background

The modernity of early modernity

From early to late modernity

Modernizing rhetoric : recuperation and response

Inquiry possibilities.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612426919

9781282426917

1282426915

9780226777504

0226777502

OCLC:

475520400