Rhetoric in an Antifoundational World

Published by Yale University Press 1998

Rhetoric in an Antifoundational World

Edited by: Glenn Adelson , James Engell and Brent Ranalli

https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300146578

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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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction Michael Bernard-Donals and Richard R. Glejzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Antifoundationalism and Rhetoric
1. Rhetoric Stanley Fish Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
2. The Contingency of Language Richard Rorty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
3. A Short History of Rhetoric Terry Eagleton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
Part II. Theoretical Elaborations
4. Language Obscures Social Change Melanie Eckford-Prossor and Michael Clifford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
5. Toward a “Materialist” Rhetoric: Contingency, Constraint, and the Eighteenth-Century Crowd Michael Hill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
6. The Decentered Subject of Feminism: Postfeminism and Thelma and Louise Linda Frost Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
7. Habermas’s Rational-Critical Sphere and the Problem of Criteria Patricia Roberts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
8. Foundational Thuggery and a Rhetoric of Subsumption Frank Farmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Part III. Extensions and Complications
9. Hymes, Rorty, and the Social-Rhetorical Construction of Meaning Robert E. Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
10. “Too Little Care”: Language, Politics, and Embodiment in the Life-World Kurt Spellmeyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
11. History and the Real Charles Shepherdson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	292
12. The Subject of Invention: Antifoundationalism and Medieval Hermeneutics Richard R. Glejzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	318
13. The Royal Road: Marxism and the Philosophy of Science Michael Sprinker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
Part IV. Teaching and Writing (in) an Antifoundational World
14. Beyond Antifoundationalism to Rhetorical Authority: Problems Defining “Cultural Literacy” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371
15. Composition Studies and Cultural Studies: Collapsing Boundaries James A. Berlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389
16. What We Need to Know about Writing and Reading, or Peter Elbow and Antifoundationalism Ellen Gardiner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	411
17. Teaching as a Test of Knowledge: Passion, Desire, and the Semblance of Truth in Teaching David Metzger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	423
18. Composition in an Antifoundational World: A Critique and a Proposai Michael Bernard-Donals Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	436
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	455
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	457

Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press

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Published: February 12, 2018
ISBN: 9780300146578