Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521462259)

The skeptical relativism and self-conscious rhetoric of the pragmatist tradition, which began with the pre-Socratic Sophists and developed through an American tradition including William James and John Dewey, have attracted new attention in the context of postmodernist thought. At the same time there has been a more general renewal of interest in rhetoric itself. This book explores the various ways in which rhetoric, sophistry, and pragmatism overlap in their current theoretical and political implications, and demonstrates how they contribute both to a rethinking of the human sciences within the academy and to larger debates over cultural politics.

Author: Steven Mailloux
ISBN-10: 0521462258
ISBN-13: 9780521462259
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/26/1995
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.67w x 0.76d