The Critical Turn: Rhetoric and Philosophy in Postmodern Discourse - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080931844X ISBN 13: 9780809318445

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992

Synopsis

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.

The two editors, Raymie E. McKerrow, Michael J. Hyde and Craig R. Smith, James W. Hikins and Kenneth S. Zagacki, Calvin O. Schrag and David James Miller, and Richard L. Lanigan map this new space, recognizing that such mapping "simultaneously constitutes the territory mapped."

About this title

About the Author

Ian Angus is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University.

Lenore Langsdorf is an associate professor in the Department of Speech Communication at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

Edition details

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080931844X
• ISBN 13: 9780809318445
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Angus PhD Associate Professor Ian, Langsdorf PhD Associate Professor Lenore