Rhetoric, Reason and Society: Rationality as Dialogue

Myerson, George

ISBN 10: 0803978677 / ISBN 13: 9780803978676

Published by SAGE Publications Ltd, 1995

About this Item

Significant underlining and marginalia spread throughout. Creases and indents on covers, small spots of sticker residue on rear. 1994. Paperback. (1h).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rhetoric, Reason and Society: Rationality as Dialogue
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803978677
• ISBN 13: 9780803978676
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Fair
• Weight: 12 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

What are the relationships between knowledge, expertise, and participatory dialogue? How is "the good life" connected to rationality? In what way is thinking dialogical and rhetorical? This original and perceptive text addresses these and other questions, offering a broad-ranging synthesis of diverse theories to show how reason, dialogue, and communication are inextricably linked. George Myerson provides a sustained discussion of contemporary theories concerning the models of rational dialogue and cultural difference. His analysis, starting with a deep reading of Habermas and Putnam, is enriched by illuminating treatments of key thinkers including Giddens, Fraser, Rawls, Billig, Elster, Lyotard, Nussbaum, Rorty, Harraway, Lloyd, Benhabib, and Bookchin. Rhetoric, Reason, and Society is a distinctive and practical introduction to interpreting these theoretical arguments. This fascinating work will be of interest to students and scholars in social, cultural, and political theory; philosophy; social psychology; communication; and the humanities.

About the Author

George Myerson, is a Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature, King′s College, London and the author of The Argumentative Imagination and The Power of Address: Explorations in Rhetoric (with Dick Leith).