Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Reconsidering Gorgias, Phaedrus, and Platonic rhetoric
- 2 Why Aristotle's notion of rhetoric and science is important for contemporary critical practice
- 3 A (rhetorical) reading of the human sciences: toward antifoundationalism
- 4 Rorty and the mirror of nature: hermeneutics and the possibility of social change
- 5 Louise Phelps and Theory: toward a human science disciplined by practical wisdom
- 6 Liberatory pedagogy, conceptual knowledge: toward a practical wisdom disciplined by scientific observation
- 7 Toward a materialist rhetoric: writing the conditions of the incommensurable
- Works cited
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Reconsidering Gorgias, Phaedrus, and Platonic rhetoric
- 2 Why Aristotle's notion of rhetoric and science is important for contemporary critical practice
- 3 A (rhetorical) reading of the human sciences: toward antifoundationalism
- 4 Rorty and the mirror of nature: hermeneutics and the possibility of social change
- 5 Louise Phelps and Theory: toward a human science disciplined by practical wisdom
- 6 Liberatory pedagogy, conceptual knowledge: toward a practical wisdom disciplined by scientific observation
- 7 Toward a materialist rhetoric: writing the conditions of the incommensurable
- Works cited
- Index
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- The Practice of TheoryRhetoric, Knowledge, and Pedagogy in the Academy, pp. 247 - 251Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998