The Critical turn
Subtitle: rhetoric and philosophy in postmodern discourse
By: edited by Ian Angus and Lenore Langsdorf.
Contributors: Angus, Ian H.; Langsdorf, Lenore, 1943-
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Rhetoric -- Congresses.; Communication -- Philosophy -- Congresses.
Description: Concerned with criticizing representational theories of knowledge by developing alternative concepts of knowing and communicating, Ian Angus and Lenore Langsdorf bring together eight essays that are united by a common theme: the convergence of philosophy and rhetoric. In the first chapter, Angus and Langsdorf illustrate the centrality of critical reasoning to the nature of questioning itself, arguing that human inquiry has entered a "new situation" where "the convictions and orientations that have traditionally marked the separation of rhetoric and philosophy -- the concern for truth and the focus on persuasion -- have begun to converge on a new space that can be defined through the central term discourse." In these essays, this convergence of rhetoric and philosophy is addressed as it presents itself to a variety of interests that transcend the traditional boundaries of these fields. -- Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chiefly papers presented at the annual meetings of the Speech Communication Association and the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy.
Table of contents: title: Unsettled borders : envisioning critique at the postmodern site / Ian Angus and Lenore Langsdorf; title: Words of others and sightings/citings/sitings of self / Lenore Langsdorf; title: Critical rhetoric and the possibility of the subject / Raymie E. McKerrow; title: Aristotle and Heidegger on emotion and rhetoric / Michael J. Hyde and Craig R. Smith; title: Rhetoric, objectivism, and the doctrine of tolerance / James W. Hikins and Kenneth S. Zagacki; title: Communication studies and philosophy / Calvin O. Schrag and David James Miller; title: The algebra of history : Merleau-Ponty and Foucault on the rhetoric of the person / Richard L. Lanigan; title: Learning to stop : a critique of general rhetoric / Ian Angus.