Rhetoric, Modality, Modernity /
Struever, Nancy S., author.
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
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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
Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Philosophy, Modern.
Enlightenment.
Rhetoric.
Modality (Theory of knowledge)