The Resources of Rationality

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ISBN: 9780253207333 | 0253207339
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 11/1/1992

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"Schrag has addressed the important problems put forth by thinkers ranging from Habermas to Lyotard and Deleuze and has confronted them openly and honestly.... This work will be useful to all who wonder what to do about the largely negative results of postmodern thought." -- Joseph C. Flay

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Preface
Introduction	p. 1
The Challenge of Postmodernism	p. 13
A Melange of Portraits	p. 13
The Despised Logos	p. 17
Undecidability and Indeterminacy	p. 23
Plurality and Paralogy	p. 29
Power and Desire	p. 35
A New Historicism	p. 42
Rationality as Praxial Critique	p. 50
Rationality, Theory, and Critique	p. 50
Critique and Criteria	p. 52
Praxial Critique as Discernment	p. 57
Praxial Critique and Community	p. 62
The Consequences of Interpretation	p. 68
Nostalgia versus Affirmation	p. 68
Discourse, Articulation, and Textuality	p. 76
Chronotopal Interpretation	p. 83
Narrative and the Claims of Reason	p. 90
The World of Narrative	p. 90
Narrativity and Knowledge	p. 97
Narrative Rationality and the Lifeworld	p. 103
Reason and Rhetoric	p. 116
The Situation of Rhetoric	p. 116
The Binding Topos of Rhetoric	p. 124
An Economy of Reasons	p. 135
Rationality across the Genres	p. 142
Transversal Rationality	p. 148
Transversality across the Disciplines	p. 148
The Chronotopal Field of Transversality	p. 156
The Transversal Logos	p. 164
The Transversal and the Transhistorical	p. 172
Works Cited	p. 181
Index	p. 187
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