Rhetoric and hermeneutics in our time
Subtitle: a reader
By: edited by Walter Jost and Michael J. Hyde.
Contributors: Jost, Walter, 1951-; Hyde, Michael J., 1950-
Series: Yale studies in hermeneutics.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
Subjects: Hermeneutics -- History -- 20th century.; Rhetoric -- Philosophy -- History -- 20th century.
Description: This book initiates a discussion 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. For readers across the humanities, the book demonstrates the usefulness of rhetorical and hermeneutic approaches in literary, philosophical, legal, religious, and political thinking.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.