RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric. Rhetoric’s Pragmatism : : Essays in Rhetorical Hermeneutics / / Steven Mailloux.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Mailloux, Steven,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

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 f...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I
• 1. From Segregated Schools to Dimpled Chads: Rhetorical Hermeneutics and the Suasive Work of Th eory in Legal Interpretation
• 2. Euro- American Rhetorical Pragmatism: Democratic Deliberation and Purposeful Mediation
• 3. Humanist Controversies and Rhetorical Humanism
• 4. Rhetorical Pragmatism and Histories of New Media: Rorty on Dreyfus on Kierkegaard on the Internet
• Part II
• 5. Making Comparisons: First Contact, Ethnocentrism, and Cross- Cultural Communication
• 6. Enactment History, Jesuit Practices, and Rhetorical Hermeneutics
• 7. Jesuit Comparative Th eorhetoric
• Part III
• 8. Hermeneutics, Deconstruction, Allegory
• 9. Theotropic Logology
• 10. Jesuit Eloquentia Perfecta and Th eotropic Logology
• 11. Rhetorical Ways of Proceeding: Eloquentia Perfecta in U.S. Jesuit Colleges
• Part IV
• 12. Judging and Hoping: Rhetorical Effects of Reading about Reading
• 13. Narrative as Embodied Intensities: Th e Eloquence of Travel in Nineteenth- Century Rome
• 14. Conversation with Keith Gilyard
• 15. Political Th eology in Douglass and Melville
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index