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Author: Blake D. Scott Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1040102409 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 327
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This book aims to recast the way that philosophers understand rhetoric. Rather than follow most philosophers in conceiving rhetoric as a specific way of speaking or writing, it shows that rhetoric is better understood as a dimension of all human discourse and action—what the author calls “rhetoricity”. This book provides the first philosophical treatment of rhetoricity. It is motivated by two ongoing developments. The first is the debate between Alain Badiou and Barbara Cassin about philosophy’s relation to rhetoric. Both Badiou and Cassin are critical of rhetoric, albeit for different reasons. Second, there has been a growing resurgence of interest in rhetoric considering the recent rise in authoritarian politics as well as new forms of propaganda driven by “persuasive technologies”. This book identifies the common target of Badiou’s and Cassin’s otherwise incompatible critiques: rhetoric’s conception of audience. It offers a fresh take on the “new rhetoric” project of Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca, putting their work into conversation with the Badiou-Cassin debate. The book then turns to the hermeneutic philosophy of Paul Ricoeur in search of an expanded conception of audience. It shows that Ricoeur’s hermeneutic philosophy allows us to extend Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca’s psychological notion of audience to texts themselves and to argue that human beings have a rhetorical capacity to reflect on audiences in search of what is potentially persuasive. The Rhetoricity of Philosophy will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in contemporary European philosophy, rhetoric, argumentation studies, and social theory.
Author: Blake D. Scott Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1040102409 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 327
Book Description
This book aims to recast the way that philosophers understand rhetoric. Rather than follow most philosophers in conceiving rhetoric as a specific way of speaking or writing, it shows that rhetoric is better understood as a dimension of all human discourse and action—what the author calls “rhetoricity”. This book provides the first philosophical treatment of rhetoricity. It is motivated by two ongoing developments. The first is the debate between Alain Badiou and Barbara Cassin about philosophy’s relation to rhetoric. Both Badiou and Cassin are critical of rhetoric, albeit for different reasons. Second, there has been a growing resurgence of interest in rhetoric considering the recent rise in authoritarian politics as well as new forms of propaganda driven by “persuasive technologies”. This book identifies the common target of Badiou’s and Cassin’s otherwise incompatible critiques: rhetoric’s conception of audience. It offers a fresh take on the “new rhetoric” project of Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca, putting their work into conversation with the Badiou-Cassin debate. The book then turns to the hermeneutic philosophy of Paul Ricoeur in search of an expanded conception of audience. It shows that Ricoeur’s hermeneutic philosophy allows us to extend Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca’s psychological notion of audience to texts themselves and to argue that human beings have a rhetorical capacity to reflect on audiences in search of what is potentially persuasive. The Rhetoricity of Philosophy will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in contemporary European philosophy, rhetoric, argumentation studies, and social theory.
Author: Andrea Bianchi Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191038695 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 433
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International lawyers have long recognised the importance of interpretation to their academic discipline and professional practice. As new insights on interpretation abound in other fields, international law and international lawyers have largely remained wedded to a rule-based approach, focusing almost exclusively on the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. Such an approach neglects interpretation as a distinct and broader field of theoretical inquiry. Interpretation in International Law brings international legal scholars together to engage in sustained reflection on the theme of interpretation. The book is creatively structured around the metaphor of the game, which captures and illuminates the constituent elements of an act of interpretation. The object of the game of interpretation is to persuade the audience that one's interpretation of the law is correct. The rules of play are known and complied with by the players, even though much is left to their skills and strategies. There is also a meta-discourse about the game of interpretation - 'playing the game of game-playing' - which involves consideration of the nature of the game, its underlying stakes, and who gets to decide by what rules one should play. Through a series of diverse contributions, Interpretation in International Law reveals interpretation as an inescapable feature of all areas of international law. It will be of interest and utility to all international lawyers whose work touches upon theoretical or practical aspects of interpretation.
Author: Jan-Ola Östman Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing ISBN: 9027207860 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 339
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The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thereby attempting to divide up its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, social, cultural, discursive, variational, or interactional angles, this 9th volume focuses on what pragmatics is good for beyond the very discipline of pragmatics as such. The chapters in the volume thus address the importance of taking a pragmatic perspective on traditional fields of applied linguistics (contrastive and error analysis, translation), and they address the core of pragmatics as the study of language use (with phenomena ranging from irony and emphasis to literacy and mass media, and with approaches to the function of language like rhetoric, stylistics, corpus analysis, and general semantics). The volume contains chapters not only on the spoken and written modes of communication, but also on signed language pragmatics and on computer-mediated communication. The impact and usefulness of taking a pragmatic perspective on language for a deeper understanding of clinical and rehabilitation practices has recently received ever more focus; in this volume, aspects of this direction of research are dealt with in the chapter on clinical pragmatics. In most of the chapters in the volume, ethics has a core role to play, not only in issues of authenticity in general in relation to research on language use, but also in issues that have a direct influence on the (linguistic) culture and society we live in, irrespective of whether we are part of a (linguistic) majority or a minority, or a minority within a minority: language policy and language planning, language ecology, and language in relation to legal matters. In all of these fields, we see the importance of research within pragmatics as a discipline dealing with how language influences our everyday lives. All in all, the volume presents different perspectives on how research in pragmatics not only can be put to practice, but how pragmatics is used as a tool to gain a better understanding of the world we live in.
Author: Joël Biard Publisher: Peeters Leuven ISBN: Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : fr Pages : 396
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La connaissance du monde s'exprime en propositions, que celles-ci soient considerees, selon les theories, comme objets ou comme moyens de la science. Le probleme de la relation entre ces entites linguistiques et les representations mental (intellections, intentions, concepts...) a une longue histoire qui remonte au traite De l'interpretation d'Aristote et aux commentaires de Boece. Apres Guillaume d'Ockham, en effet, l'idee de langage mental est certes une hypothese qui a acquis force et consistance, mais tous les problemes lies a la structuration de la pensee et au rapport entre le langage parle et la pensee ne sont pas resolus. Des questions surgissent sur la structuration meme de ce langage.Le colloque organise a Tours du 1er au 3 decembre 2005 sous les auspices de la Fondation europeenne de la science (European Science Foundation) avait l'ambition de parcourir ces questions en repartant d'Augustin qui est l'initiale medievale du probleme, et en suivant cette histoire jusqu'a l'aube des Temps modernes. Ce parcours historique donc fait une part importante au Moyen Age tardif, a la Renaissance et au XVIIe siecle. En meme temps, notre ambition etait aussi d'approfondir certains enjeux proprement philosophiques de ce parcours. L'horizon general est la question : est-il possible de considerer le domaine de la pensee comme etant structure a la maniere d'un langage, et par quels moyens conceptuels penser cela ? Comment cette idee peut-elle cesser d'etre metaphorique pour devenir un veritable instrument conceptuel d'investigation des procedures de pensee ? Comment les theories du Moyen Age tardif, de la Renaissance, des debuts des Temps modernes, peuvent elles etre mises en relation avec l'idee contemporaine du langage de la pensee ? Dans le meme temps l'emergence de l'idee medievale de langage mental remet en cause ou transforme certains usages de l'intention et de l'etre intentionnel tels qu'ils s'etaient imposes au tournant des XIIIe et XIVe siecles. Les problemes concernant le rapport entre intentions premieres et intentions secondes, intentions concretes et intentions abstraites, disparaissent ou sont considerablement transformes. Comment relier ces transfomations a l'idee contemporaine (ou aux idees contemporaines) d'intentionnalite ? Si l'idee medievale d'intention recouvre parfois le contenu mental, elle peut aussi designer un aspect de la chose, vise par la pensee. Si l'intentionnalite caracterise les entites mentales comme pensees de quelque chose, quel est le rapport entre cette intentionnalite et la semanticite du langage ? Enfin, les developpements sur le langage mental et ses remises en cause ulterieures nous conduisent a nous interroger sur les usages classiques de la notion de representation , une idee qui est elle aussi sinon equivoque du moins polysemique. La notion gagne en importance tant sur un plan metaphysique general (notamment avec Duns Scot) que dans certaines theories logiques et semantiques du XIVe siecle. Mais est-ce dans le meme sens qu'on la retrouvera au XVIIe siecle ?
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Des trois volets de l'oeuvre de Chaïm Perelman – la philosophie du droit, l'éthique et la logique – le troisième est le moins connu. Les précédents tomes de L'éloquence de la raison ont mis l'accent sur les deux premiers. Il s'agit, à présent, d'expliciter les conditions épistémologiques de possibilité de la nouvelle rhétorique, conçue comme logique argumentative, non comme technologie persuasive.
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