The Recovery of Rhetoric: Persuasive Discourse and Disciplinarity in the Human Sciences - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0813914566 ISBN 13 : 9780813914565

Editeur : University of Virginia Press, 1993

Synopsis

This collection of essays by distinguished international scholars from various disciplines addresses the widespread and growing interest in the nature and function of rhetoric, and in the rhetorical analysis of such human sciences as psychology, political science, economics, medicine, and philosophy.

The book may be situated with the new studies that show how disciplines have been constructed, legitimated, and institutionalised and, in particular, with those focusing on the material, social and rhetorical practices that have produced disciplinary knowledges and disciplines themselves. While the disciplines often present their knowledge as purely objective, their knowledges are, as the book shows, only available in rhetorical form. Rhetoric is thus not merely a medium through which knowledge is communicated but rather that which is constitutive of knowledge itself.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Richard H. Roberts is Director of the Institute for Religion and the Human Sciences at the University of St. Andrews. James M.M. Good is Co-Director of the Centre for the History of the Human Sciences at the University of Durham.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Virginia Press
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0813914566
• ISBN 13: 9780813914565
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 278
• Éditeur: Roberts R. H., Good J. M. M.
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• Personne responsable: non disponible