Rhetoric and Hermeneutics in Our Time: A ReaderWalter Jost, Michael J. Hyde This thought-provoking book initiates a dialogue among scholars in rhetoric and hermeneutics in many areas of the humanities. Twenty leading thinkers explore the ways these two powerful disciplines inform each other and influence a wide variety of intellectual fields. Walter Jost and Michael J. Hyde organize pivotal topics in rhetoric and hermeneutics with originality and coherence, dividing their book into four sections: Locating the Disciplines; Inventions and Applications; Arguments and Narratives; and Civic Discourse and Critical Theory. Contributors to this volume include Hans-Georg Gadamer (one of whose pieces is here translated into English for the first time), Paul Ricoeur, Gerald L. Bruns, Charles Altieri, Richard E. Palmer, Calvin O. Schrag,.Victoria Kahn, Eugene Garver, Michael Leff, Nancy S. Streuver, Wendy Olmsted, David Tracy, Donald G. Marshall, Allen Scult, Rita Copeland, William Rehg, and Steven Mailloux. For readers across the humanities, the book demonstrates the usefulness of rhetorical and hermeneutic approaches in literary, philosophical, legal, religious, and political thinking. With its stimulating new perspectives on the revival and interrelation of both rhetoric and hermeneutics, this collection is sure to serve as a benchmark for years to come. |
Contents
Rhetoric and Hermeneutics | 1 |
translated by Joel Weinsheimer | 45 |
RhetoricPoeticsHermeneutics | 60 |
On the Tragedy of Hermeneutical Experience | 73 |
Toward a Hermeneutics Responsive | 90 |
What Hermeneutics Can Offer Rhetoric | 108 |
Hermeneutical Circles Rhetorical Triangles | 132 |
Humanism and the Resistance to Theory | 149 |
Indeterminacy | 235 |
Augustines Search | 254 |
Rhetoric Hermeneutics and the Interpretation | 275 |
The Dilemma | 290 |
Rhetoric Hermeneutics and IdeologyCritique | 313 |
Rhetoric and the Politics of the Literal Sense | 335 |
Reason and Rhetoric in Habermass Theory | 358 |
The Pragmatic | 378 |
Rhetoric Hermeneutics and Prudence in | 171 |
Hermeneutical Rhetoric | 196 |
List of Contributors | 395 |
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