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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796594303321

Autore

Mailloux Steven

Titolo

Rhetoric's pragmatism : essays in rhetorical hermeneutics / / Steven Mailloux

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

0-271-08001-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 233 pages )

Collana

The RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric

Disciplina

808.001

Soggetti

Hermeneutics

Rhetorical criticism

Rhetoric - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-229) and index.

Nota di contenuto

From segregated schools to dimpled chads : rhetorical hermeneutics and the suasive work of theory in legal interpretation -- Euro-American rhetorical pragmatism : democratic deliberation and purposeful mediation -- Humanist controversies and rhetorical humanism -- Rhetorical pragmatism and histories of new media : Rorty on Dreyfus on Kierkegaard on the internet -- Making comparisons : first contact, ethnocentrism, and cross-cultural communication -- Enactment history, Jesuit practices, and rhetorical hermeneutics -- Jesuit comparative theorhetoric -- Hermeneutics, deconstruction, allegory -- Theotropic logology -- Jesuit eloquentia perfecta and theotropic logology -- Rhetorical ways of proceeding : eloquentia perfecta in U.S. Jesuit colleges -- Judging and hoping : rhetorical effects of reading about reading -- Narrative as embodied intensities : the eloquence of travel in nineteenth-century Rome -- Conversation with Keith Gilyard -- Political theology in Douglass and Melville.

Sommario/riassunto

"A collection of essays on the methodology of rhetorical hermeneutics. Takes a historically and theoretically informed approach to textual interpretation, focusing on the production, circulation, and reception of written and performed communication"--Provided by publisher.