Rhetoric in an Antifoundational World
Subtitle: Language, Culture, and Pedagogy
Contributors: Michael Bernard-Donals (Editor); Richard R. Glejzer (Editor)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: January 21, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780300070224
Subjects: Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; English Language (Specific Aspects); Rhetoric (General); Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Philosophy; History & Surveys - Modern; Rhetoric; Semiotics & Theory; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; 20th century; English language; English-speaking countries; Language and culture; Study and teaching
Description: In this 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.