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Human communication as narration : toward a philosophy of reason, value, and action /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fisher, Walter R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, ©1987.
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.