Rhetoric and Hermeneutics in Our Time / Stephen J. Kunitz, Jerrold E. Levy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kunitz, Stephen J., Author.

Levy, Jerrold E., Author.

Series:

Yale studies in hermeneutics. Rhetoric and hermeneutics in our time

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hermeneutics--History--20th century.

Hermeneutics.

Rhetoric--Philosophy--History--20th century.

Rhetoric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [1997]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This thought-provoking book initiates a dialogue among scholars in rhetoric and hermeneutics in many areas of the humanities. Twenty leading thinkers explore the ways these two powerful disciplines inform each other and influence a wide variety of intellectual fields. Walter Jost and Michael J. Hyde organize pivotal topics in rhetoric and hermeneutics with originality and coherence, dividing their book into four sections: Locating the Disciplines; Inventions and Applications; Arguments and Narratives; and Civic Discourse and Critical Theory.Contributors to this volume include Hans-Georg Gadamer (one of whose pieces is here translated into English for the first time), Paul Ricoeur, Gerald L. Bruns, Charles Altieri, Richard E. Palmer, Calvin O. Schrag,.Victoria Kahn, Eugene Garver, Michael Leff, Nancy S. Streuver, Wendy Olmsted, David Tracy, Donald G. Marshall, Allen Scult, Rita Copeland, William Rehg, and Steven Mailloux.For readers across the humanities, the book demonstrates the usefulness of rhetorical and hermeneutic approaches in literary, philosophical, legal, religious, and political thinking. With its stimulating new perspectives on the revival and interrelation of both rhetoric and hermeneutics, this collection is sure to serve as a benchmark for years to come.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Prologue

Introduction: Rhetoric and Hermeneutics: Places Along the Way

I Rhetoric and Hermeneutics

2 Rhetoric-Poetics-Hermeneutics

3 On the Tragedy of Hermeneutical Experience

4 Toward a Hermeneutics Responsive to Rhetorical Theory

5 What Hermeneutics Can Offer Rhetoric

6 Hermeneutical Circles, Rhetorical Triangles, and Transversal Diagonals

7 Humanism and the Resistance to Theory

8 Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and Prudence in the Interpretation of the Constitution

9 Hermeneutical Rhetoric

10 Subtilitas Applicandi in Rhetorical Hermeneutics: Peirce's Gloss and Kelly's Example

11. The Uses of Rhetoric: Indeterminacy in Legal Reasoning, Practical Thinking, and the Interpretation of Literary Figures

12 Charity, Obscurity, Clarity: Augustine's Search for Rhetoric and Hermeneutics

13 Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and the Interpretation of Scripture: Augustine to Robert of Basevorn

14 Hermes' Rhetorical Problem: The Dilemma of the Sacred in Philosophical Hermeneutics

15 Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and Ideology-Critique

16 Rhetoric and the Politics of the Literal Sense in Medieval Literary Theory: Aquinas, Wyclif, and the Lollards

17 Reason and Rhetoric in Habermas's Theory of Argumentation

18 Articulation and Understanding: The Pragmatic Intimacy Between Rhetoric and Hermeneutics

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

9780300146448

0300146442

OCLC:

1024033736