The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences

Language and Argument in Scholarship and Public Affairs. Edited by John S. Nelson, Allan Megill, and Donald N. McClosky.

A collection of 22 essays addressing the role of rhetoric for inquiries of all kinds in various disciplines, ranging from sociology and political science, through anthropology and psychology, to mathematics and economics. It also explores communications in women's issues, religion and law. - Opening with an overview of the renewal of interest in rhetoric for inquiries of all kinds, this volume addresses rhetoric in individual disciplines - mathematics, anthropology, psychology, economics, sociology, political science, and history. Two essays draw from recent literary theory to suggest the contribution of the humanities to the rhetoric of inquiry, and several essays explore communications beyond the academy, particularly in women’s issues, religion, and law. The final essays speak from the field of communication studies, where the study of rhetoric usually makes its home. Contents: John S. Nelson, Allan Megill, and Donald N. McCloskey: Rhetoric of Inquiry. - Michael C. Left: Modern Sophistic and the Unity of Rhetoric. - Richard Rorty: Science as Solidarity. - Philip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh: Rhetoric and Mathematics. - John Angus Campbell: Charles Darwin: Rhetorician of Science. - Renato Rosaldo: Where Objectivity Lies: The Rhetoric of Anthropology. - Misia Landau: Paradise Lost: The Theme of Terrestriality in Human Evolution. - Charles Bazerman: Codifying the Social Scientific Style: The APA "Publication Manual" as a Behaviorist Rhetoric. - Donal E. Carlston: Turning Psychology on Itself: The Rhetoric of Psychology and the Psychology of Rhetoric. - Arjo Klamer: As If Economists and Their Subjects Were Rational. - Richard Harvey Brown: Reason as Rhetorical: On Relations Among Epistemology, Discourse, and Practice. - John S. Nelson: Stories of Science and Politics: Some Rhetorics of Political Research. - Allan Megill and Donald N. McCloskey: The Rhetoric of History. - Gerald L. Bruns: On the Weakness of Language in the Human Sciences. - Paul Hernadi: Literary Interpretation and the Rhetoric of the Human Sciences. - David E. Klemm: The Rhetoric of Theological Argument. - James Boyd White: Rhetoric and Law: The Arts of Cultural and Communal Life. - Jean Bethke Elshtain: Feminist Political Rhetoric and Women's Studies. - Charles W. Anderson: The Human Sciences and the Liberal Polity in Rhetorical Relationship. - Michael J. Shapiro: The Rhetoric of Social Science: The Political Responsibilities of the Scholar. - Michael Calvin McGee and John R. Lyne: What Are Nice Folks Like You Doing in a Place Like This? Some Entailments of Treating Knowledge Claims Rhetorically. - John S. Nelson: Seven Rhetorics of Inquiry: A Provocation. XIII,445 Seiten, Leinen (The University of Wisconsin Press 1987) leicht bestoßen, Schnitt leicht angeschmutzt, Schutzumschlag beschädigt/slightly bumped, cut slightly soiled, dust jacket damaged