Rhetoric’s Pragmatism
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Rhetoric’s Pragmatism

Essays in Rhetorical Hermeneutics

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Rhetoric’s Pragmatism

Essays in Rhetorical Hermeneutics

About this book

For over thirty years, Steven Mailloux has championed and advanced the field of rhetorical hermeneutics, a historically and theoretically informed approach to textual interpretation. This volume collects fourteen of his most recent influential essays on the methodology, plus an interview.

Following from the proposition that rhetorical hermeneutics uses rhetoric to practice theory by doing history, this book examines a diverse range of texts from literature, history, law, religion, and cultural studies. Through four sections, Mailloux explores the theoretical writings of Heidegger, Burke, and Rorty, among others; Jesuit educational treatises; and products of popular culture such as Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran and Star Trek: The Next Generation. In doing so, he shows how rhetorical perspectives and pragmatist traditions work together as two mutually supportive modes of understanding, and he demonstrates how the combination of rhetoric and interpretation works both in theory and in practice. Theoretically, rhetorical hermeneutics can be understood as a form of neopragmatism. Practically, it focuses on the production, circulation, and reception of written and performed communication.

A thought-provoking collection from a preeminent literary critic and rhetorician, Rhetoric's Pragmatism assesses the practice and value of rhetorical hermeneutics today and the directions in which it might head. Scholars and students of rhetoric and communication studies, critical theory, literature, law, religion, and American studies will find Mailloux's arguments enlightening and essential.

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Table of contents

  1. COVER Front
  2. Series page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. Notes to Introduction
  8. PART I
  9. Chapter 1: From Segregated Schools to Dimpled Chads: Rhetorical Hermeneutics and the Suasive Work of Theory in Legal Interpretation
  10. Notes to Chapter 1
  11. Chapter 2: Euro-American Rhetorical Pragmatism: Democratic Deliberation and Purposeful Mediation
  12. Notes to Chapter 2
  13. Chapter 3: Humanist Controversies and Rhetorical Humanism
  14. Notes to Chapter 3
  15. Chapter 4: Rhetorical Pragmatism and Histories of New Media: Rorty on Dreyfus on Kierkegaard on the Internet
  16. Notes to Chapter 4
  17. Part II
  18. Chapter 5: Making Comparisons: First Contact, Ethnocentrism, and Cross-Cultural Communication
  19. Notes to Chapter 5
  20. Chapter 6: Enactment History, Jesuit Practices, and Rhetorical Hermeneutics
  21. Notes to Chapter 6
  22. Chapter 7: Jesuit Comparative Theorhetoric
  23. Notes to Chapter 7
  24. Part III
  25. Chapter 8: Hermeneutics, Deconstruction, Allegory
  26. Notes to Chapter 8
  27. Chapter 9: Theotropic Logology
  28. Notes to Chapter 9
  29. Chapter 10: Jesuit Eloquentia Perfecta and Theotropic Logology
  30. Notes to Chapter 10
  31. Chapter 11: Rhetorical Ways of Proceeding: Eloquentia Perfecta in U.S. Jesuit Colleges
  32. Notes to Chapter 11
  33. Part IV
  34. Chapter 12: Judging and Hoping: Rhetorical Effects of Reading about Reading
  35. Notes to Chapter 12
  36. Chapter 13: Narrative as Embodied Intensities: The Eloquence of Travel in Nineteenth- Century Rome
  37. Notes to Chapter 13
  38. Chapter 14: Conversation with Keith Gilyard
  39. Notes to Chapter 14
  40. Chapter 15: Political Theology in Douglass and Melville
  41. Notes to Chapter 15
  42. Notes
  43. Bibliography
  44. Index
  45. COVER Back