Rhetoric in an Antifoundational World / Glenn Adelson, Brent Ranalli, James Engell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adelson, Glenn, Editor.

Engell, James, Editor.

Ranalli, Brent, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Study and teaching--Rhetoric--English-speaking countries.

English language.

Language and culture--Rhetoric.

Language and culture.

English language--Study and teaching.

Report writing--Philosophy.

Report writing.

Language and languages.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [1998]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this brilliant 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. The contributors to this book explore the nexus of antifoundationalism and rhetoric, critique that nexus, and suggest a number of pedagogical and theoretical alternatives. The editors place these statements into a context that is both critical and evaluative, and they provide for voices that dissent from the antifoundational perspective and that connect specific, practical pedagogies to the broader philosophical statements. For those with an interest in rhetoric, philosophy, comparative literature, or the teaching of composition, this book sets forth a wealth of thought-provoking ideas.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Rhetoric

2. The Contingency of Language

3. A Short History of Rhetoric

4. Language Obscures Social Change

5. Toward a "Materialist" Rhetoric: Contingency, Constraint, and the Eighteenth-Century Crowd

6. The Decentered Subject of Feminism: Postfeminism and Thelma and Louise

7. Habermas's Rational-Critical Sphere and the Problem of Criteria

8. Foundational Thuggery and a Rhetoric of Subsumption

9. Hymes, Rorty, and the Social-Rhetorical Construction of Meaning

10. "Too Little Care": Language, Politics, and Embodiment in the Life-World

11. History and the Real

12. The Subject of Invention: Antifoundationalism and Medieval Hermeneutics

13. The Royal Road: Marxism and the Philosophy of Science

14. Beyond Antifoundationalism to Rhetorical Authority: Problems Defining "Cultural Literacy"

15. Composition Studies and Cultural Studies: Collapsing Boundaries

16. What We Need to Know about Writing and Reading, or Peter Elbow and Antifoundationalism

17. Teaching as a Test of Knowledge: Passion, Desire, and the Semblance of Truth in Teaching

18. Composition in an Antifoundational World: A Critique and a Proposai

Contributors

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:

9780300146578

0300146574

OCLC:

1024044234