Rhetorical Hermeneutics: Invention and Interpretation in the Age of Science

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ISBN: 9780791431108 | 079143110X
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 10/1/1996

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Starting from the work of John Angus Campbell, Alan Gross, and Lawrence Prelli on the rhetoric of science, Gaonkar broadens his critique to fundamental issues for any rhetorical theory and develops four questions that cut to the heart of the possibility of a postmodern rhetoric.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
The Idea of Rhetoric in the Rhetoric of Science	p. 25
The Idea of Rhetoric As Interpretive Practice: A Humanist's Response to Gaonkar	p. 89
Big Rhetoric, Little Rhetoric: Gaonkar on the Rhetoric of Science	p. 101
Strategic Reading: Rhetoric, Intention, and Interpretation	p. 113
What If We're Not Producing Knowledge? Critical Reflections on the Rhetorical Criticism of Science	p. 138
Classical Rhetoric without Nostalgia: A Response to Gaonkar	p. 156
Rhetoric's Lot	p. 172
Instrumentalism, Contextualism, and Interpretation in Rhetorical Criticism	p. 195
Engineering Rhetoric	p. 225
From Tekhne to Technique: Rhetoric As a Design Art	p. 247
"Rhetoric of Science": Double the Trouble?	p. 279
The Rhetorical Critic and the Invisible Polis	p. 299
An Elliptical Postscript	p. 317
Close Readings of the Third Kind: Reply to My Critics	p. 330
Contributors	p. 357
Subject Index	p. 361
Name Index	p. 367
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Rhetorical Hermeneutics: Invention and Interpretation in the Age of Science

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