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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462284603321

Autore

Arthos John <1956->

Titolo

Speaking hermeneutically [[electronic resource] ] : understanding in the conduct of a life / / John Arthos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, SC, : University of South Carolina Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-60349-7

9786613915948

1-61117-206-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Collana

Studies in rhetoric/communication

Disciplina

808/.001

Soggetti

Rhetoric - History

Rhetoric - Theory, etc

Hermeneutics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"We can not consecrate": between word and flesh -- The space of deliberation and the time of decision: discursive reciprocities of self and world -- Transitive agency: between person and text -- The history and structure of the circle -- Thinking out loud: the involutions of Newman's mind -- Instigating the event of understanding: John Jay Chapman in public and private -- In the garden of the Tuileries: the circularity of narrative understanding -- The hermeneutic text: "an infinite web of motivations" -- Three distances -- A house divided: contingent judgment and rhetorical competence -- John Brown's body: pathologies of the social imaginary.