Justifying Belief , livre ebook

202

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English

Ebooks

2012

Écrit par
Gary A. Olson

Publié par
State University of New York Press

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202

pages

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Ebooks

2012

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Publié par

State University of New York Press

Date de parution

01 février 2012

EAN13

9780791487372

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

30 Mo

While Stanley Fish has exerted immense influence on the study of seventeenth-century poetry and prose, his most widely read works—and perhaps his most important—are his nonliterary writings. In Justifying Belief, Gary Olson examines Fish's nonliterary work and explains that what unites Fish's interventions in so many seemingly disparate areas of inquiry is his belief in the centrality of rhetoric. Whether he is discussing how disciplines conduct their work, how political positions triumph, or how practice always derives from specific situations despite the grandiose theories employed to justify them, Fish consistently turns to the specific local, contingent context—to the rhetorical situation at play—to explain how something works. For Fish, people "understand" or are "persuaded" by a position because it fits into the structure of beliefs already in play, not because they have been swayed by the "reasonableness" of someone's argument; they then pursue the available means of support to justify that belief rhetorically, both to themselves and to others. Olson demonstrates that this strong relationship between rhetoric and belief is the intellectual foundation of much of Fish's work. Justifying Belief includes a comprehensive bibliography of Fish's works, an Afterword by J. Hillis Miller, and a Foreword by Fish himself.

Foreword
Stanley Fish

Introduction

1. Public Intellectuals and the Discipline of English Studies

2. No Loss, No Gain: The Argument against Principle

3. The Story of Rhetoric: Constructing the Ground Upon Which You Confidently Walk

4. Fish Tales: A Conversation with "The Contemporary Sophist"

5. From Multiculturalism to Academic Freedom: The Case against Universalism

Afterword
J. Hillis Miller

Notes

Works Cited

The Works of Stanley Fish

Index

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Publié par

State University of New York Press

Date de parution

01 février 2012

EAN13

9780791487372

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

30 Mo

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