Unruly Examples

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ISBN: 9780804724005 | 0804724008
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 6/1/1995

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These 2 essays demonstrate that, beyond example's rich genealogy in the rhetorical tradition, it involves issues that are central to current theories of meaning and ethics in literature and philosophy.

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Introduction	p. 1
Take the Bible for Example: Midrash as Literary Theory	p. 27
Example versus Historia: Montaigne, Eriugena, and Dante	p. 48
Circe's Drink and Sorbonnic Wine: Montaigne's Paradox of Experience	p. 86
The Discourse of the Example: An "Example," Chapter IV of the First Part of The Logic of Port-Royal	p. 104
Fables of Responsibility	p. 121
The Pragmatics of Exemplary Narrative	p. 142
Parabolic Exemplarity: The Example of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra	p. 162
"The Beauty of Failure": Kafka and Benjamin on the Task of Transmission and Translation	p. 175
Exemplarity and the Origins of Legislation	p. 211
Kant's Examples	p. 255
The Force of Example: Kant's Symbols	p. 277
Of the Eye and the Law	p. 303
Notes	p. 327
Index	p. 373
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