Rhetoric, sophistry, pragmatism / edited by Steven Mailloux.
The anti-sceptical relativism and self-conscious rhetoric of the pragmatist tradition, which began with the Older Sophists of Ancient Greece and developed through an American tradition including William James and John Dewey has attracted new attention in the context of late twentieth-century postmod...
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1995.
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| Series: | Literature, culture, theory ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : sophistry and rhetorical pragmatism / Steven Mailloux
- Isocrates' philosophia and contemporary pragmatism / Edward Schiappa
- The degradation of rhetoric; or, dressing like a gentleman, speaking like a scholar / Jasper Neel
- Antilogics, dialogics, and sophistic social psychology : Michael Billig's reinvention of Bakhtin from Protagorean rhetoric / Don H. Bialostosky
- The "genealogies" of pragmatism / Tom Cohen
- Philosophy in the "new" rhetoric, rhetoric in the "new" philosophy / Joseph Margolis
- Individual feeling and universal validity / Charlene Haddock Seigfried and Hans Seigfried
- Pragmatism, rhetoric, and The American scene / Giles Gunn
- The political consequences of pragmatism; or, cultural pragmatics for a cybernetic revolution / David B. Downing
- In excess : radical extensions of neopragmatism / Susan C. Jarratt.