The Critical turn: rhetoric and philosophy in postmodern discourse

437 Pages·1993·1.1 MB·English

by  Ian H. Angus

The Critical Turn : Rhetoric and Philosophy
title:
in Postmodern Discourse
author: Angus, Ian H.
publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
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print isbn13: 9780809318438
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language: English
Rhetoric--Congresses, Communication--
subject
Philosophy--Congresses.
publication date: 1993
lcc: P301.C75 1993eb
ddc: 808/.001
Rhetoric--Congresses, Communication--
subject: Philosophy--Congresses.
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The Critical Turn
Rhetoric and Philosophy in Postmodern Discourse
Edited by
Ian Angus and Lenore Langsdorf
Southern Illinois University Press
Carbondale and Edwardsville
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Copyright © 1993 by the Board of Trustees,
Southern Illinois University
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Printed in the United States of America
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Production supervised by Natalia Nadraga
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The Critical turn: rhetoric and philosophy in postmodern discourse /
edited by Ian Angus and Lenore Langsdorf.
p. cm.
Chiefly papers presented at the annual meetings of the Speech
Communication Association and the Society for Phenomenology
and Existential Philosophy.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. RhetoricCongresses. 2. CommunicationPhilosophy
Congresses. I. Angus, Ian H. II. Langsdorf, Lenore, 1943-.
P301.C75 1993
808'.001dc20 92-
9398
ISBN 0-8093-1843-1 (cloth). ISBN 0-8093-1844-X (pbk.) CIP
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements
of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence
of Paper for Printed Library Materials,
ANSI Z39.48-1984.
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With love and gratitude
to
Viviana Elsztein Angus and Vernon Lee Crawford
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Contributors xi
1 1
Unsettled Borders: Envisioning Critique at the
Postmodern Site
Ian Angus and Lenore Langsdorf
2 20
Words of Others and Sightings/Citings/Sitings of Self
Lenore Langsdorf
3 51
Critical Rhetoric and the Possibility of the Subject
Raymie E. McKerrow
4 68
Aristotle and Heidegger on Emotion and Rhetoric:
Questions of Time and Space
Michael J. Hyde and Craig R. Smith
5 100
Rhetoric, Objectivism, and the Doctrine of Tolerance
James W. Hikins and Kenneth S. Zagacki

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6 126
Communication Studies and Philosophy: Convergence
Without Coincidence
Calvin O. Schrag and David James Miller
7 140
The Algebra of History: Merleau-Ponty and Foucault on
the Rhetoric of the Person
Richard L. Lanigan
8 175
Learning to Stop: A Critique of General Rhetoric
Ian Angus
Index 213
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Acknowledgments
We (the coeditors) began talking about the theme of this book in
Toronto in 1984. Continued conversation was punctuated by sessions
we organized at the annual meetings of the Speech Communication
Association and the Society for Phenomenology and Existential
Philosophy; most of these essays were originally presented at those
meetings. As editors, we acknowledge with thanks the participants'
sustained interest and collegiality.
As contributors, we all thank James VanOosting (chair of the Speech
Communication Department, Southern Illinois University) for his
support of the project, and Mariangela Maguire (doctoral student in
speech communication, SIU) for her especially valued contribution as
editorial assistant.
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Contributors
I A (Ph.D., York University, 1980) is an associate professor in
AN NGUS
the Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts at
Amherst. He is author of Technique and Enlightenment: Limits of
Instrumental Reason and George Grant's Platonic Rejoinder to
Heidegger, editor of Ethnicity in a Technological Age, and coeditor
(with Sut Jhally) of Cultural Politics in Contemporary America.
J W. H (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1985) is an
AMES IKINS
assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Ohio State
University in Columbus. He is the author (with Richard A. Cherwitz)
of Communication and Knowledge: An Investigation in Rhetorical
Epistemology and has contributed numerous essays on rhetorical
theory and criticism to such journals as Quarterly Journal of Speech,
Philosophy and Rhetoric, and Communication Studies. His research
focuses primarily on the relationships among the concepts of human
communication, rhetoric, and knowledge. Most recently, he has been
exploring the application of contemporary notions of rhetoric as
epistemic to methods of rhetorical criticism.
M J. H (Ph.D., Purdue University, 1977) is an associate
ICHAEL YDE
professor of communication studies in the Department of
Communication Studies at Northwestern University and is the editor
of, and a contributor to, Communication Philosophy and the
Technological Age. His numerous essays and critical reviews appear
in such academic journals as Quarterly Journal