Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: sophistry and rhetorical pragmatism
- 1 Isocrates' philosophia and contemporary pragmatism
- 2 The degradation of rhetoric; or, dressing like a gentleman, speaking like a scholar
- 3 Antilogies, dialogics, and sophistic social psychology: Michael Billig's reinvention of Bakhtin from Protagorean rhetoric
- 4 The “genealogies” of pragmatism
- 5 Philosophy in the “new” rhetoric, rhetoric in the “new” philosophy
- 6 Individual feeling and universal validity
- 7 Pragmatism, rhetoric, and The American Scene
- 8 The political consequences of pragmatism; or, cultural pragmatics for a cybernetic revolution
- 9 In excess: radical extensions of neopragmatism
- Selected bibliographies
- Index
List of contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: sophistry and rhetorical pragmatism
- 1 Isocrates' philosophia and contemporary pragmatism
- 2 The degradation of rhetoric; or, dressing like a gentleman, speaking like a scholar
- 3 Antilogies, dialogics, and sophistic social psychology: Michael Billig's reinvention of Bakhtin from Protagorean rhetoric
- 4 The “genealogies” of pragmatism
- 5 Philosophy in the “new” rhetoric, rhetoric in the “new” philosophy
- 6 Individual feeling and universal validity
- 7 Pragmatism, rhetoric, and The American Scene
- 8 The political consequences of pragmatism; or, cultural pragmatics for a cybernetic revolution
- 9 In excess: radical extensions of neopragmatism
- Selected bibliographies
- Index
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- Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism , pp. xiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995