Judgment Calls (Polemics) - Softcover

Sloop, John; Mcdaniel, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813366372 ISBN 13: 9780813366371

Publisher: Perseus, 1999

Synopsis

The concept of judgment has occupied a place of special importance in the tradition of Western thought. In antiquity and especially in the Enlightenment, judgment served as the rubric under which Western thinkers struggled to come to terms with how the world of human concerns is constituted in thought and, perhaps more important, how humans call for timely and appropriate actions. Recently, judgment has again emerged as a highly contestatory site for philosophical, rhetorical, and cultural reflection and inquiry.This book puts into contact a variety of responses to the question of judgment in a postmodern age, seeking out the question of how, once solid ground is pulled out from underneath the position of the judge, one continues to tread” judgment, to meet obligations while remaining afloat.The essays in this edited volume investigate judgment as a rhetorical problem to be discussed philosophically and examines the standards by which judgments are made and can be made in contemporary culture. The essays clarify the links between rhetoric and judgment as they are played out on public and meta-critical levels.

About this title

About the Author:

John M. Sloop is assistant professor of communication studies at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of The Cultural Prison and coeditor of Mapping the Beat: Popular Music and Contemporary Theory.James McDaniel is visiting assistant professor at Indiana University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Perseus
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0813366372
• ISBN 13: 9780813366371
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272