Speaking hermeneutically : understanding in the conduct of a life

Speaking hermeneutically : understanding in the conduct of a life / John Arthos.

A fruitful consideration of the interplay of hermeneutic theory and rhetorical practice in communication.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arthos, John, 1956-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, ©2011.
Series:Studies in rhetoric/communication.
Subjects:
Rhetoric > History.
Rhetoric > Theory, etc.
Hermeneutics.
hermeneutics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
Hermeneutics
Rhetoric
History
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Table of Contents:
  • "We can not consecrate": between word and flesh
  • The space of deliberation and the time of decision: discursive reciprocities of self and world
  • Transitive agency: between person and text
  • The history and structure of the circle
  • Thinking out loud: the involutions of Newman's mind
  • Instigating the event of understanding: John Jay Chapman in public and private
  • In the garden of the Tuileries: the circularity of narrative understanding
  • The hermeneutic text: "an infinite web of motivations"
  • Three distances
  • A house divided: contingent judgment and rhetorical competence
  • John Brown's body: pathologies of the social imaginary.

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