Human communication as narration : toward a philosophy of reason, value, and action /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia, S.C. :
University of South Carolina Press,
©1987.
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Colección: | Studies in rhetoric/communication.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword
- Afterword
- Preface
- Part I : The historical exigence
- In the beginning. From philosophy to technical discourse ; Voices on behalf of poetic ; Voices on behalf of rhetoric
- Connection with logic. Dialogue, dialectic, and logic ; Aristotle : the beginnings of technical and rhetorical logic ; Technical logic : handmaiden of learned discourse ; Rhetorical logic : handmaiden of public discourse ; From geometry and mathematics to language and jurisprudence ; Narrative rationality as a rhetorical logic
- Part II : The narrative paradigm and related theories
- Narration as a paradigm of human communication ; The rational-world paradigm ; The narrative paradigm ; A case : public moral argument
- An elaboration. Relationships to other theories ; Social-scientific theories and the narrative paradigm ; Humanistic theories and the narrative paradigm
- Part III : Narrative rationality, good reason, and audiences
- Assessing narrative fidelity : the logic of good reasons. The meaning of "logic" ; Good reasons ; The logic of good reasons ; Criterial analysis ; Hierarchies of values ; Rationality and rhetorical competence
- Narrative rationality and qualities of audiences. Philosophical, political, and personal characteristics of audiences ; Justice : the motivational characteristic ; Critical rationalism : the competence characteristic ; Concepts of audiences reconsidered
- Part IV : Application
- Narrativity and politics : the case of Ronald Reagan. Reagan's rhetoric ; Reagan's story ; Reagan's character ; Reagan's implied audience
- Argument in drama and literature. Rhetoric, poetic, and aesthetic proof ; Argument in Death of a Salesman ; Argument in The Great Gatsby
- Choosing between Socrates and Callicles : an assessment of philosophcal discourse. Socrates' story ; Callicles' story ; Choosing between Socrates and Callicles
- In retrospect.