Toward a Phenomenological Rhetoric: Writing, Profession, and Altruism (Shawnee Classics) - Hardcover

Couture, Barbara; Rothert, Otto Arthur

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809320339 ISBN 13: 9780809320332

Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

Current rhetorical and critical theory for the most part separates writing from consciousness and presumes relative truth to be the only possible expressive goal for rhetoric. These presumptions are reflected in our tradition of persuasive rhetoric, which values writing that successfully argues one person’s belief at the expense of another’s. Barbara Couture presents a case for a phenomenological rhetoric, one that values and respects consciousness and selfhood and that restores to rhetoric the possibility of seeking an all-embracing truth through pacific and cooperative interaction.

Couture discusses the premises on which current interpretive theory has supported relative truth asthe philosophical grounding for rhetoric, premises, she argues, that have led to constraints on our notion of truth that divorce it from human experience. She then shows how phenomenological philosophy might guide the theory and practice of rhetoric, reanimating its role in the human enterprise of seeking a shared truth. She proposesprofession and altruism as two guiding metaphors for the phenomenological activity of "truth-seeking through interaction."

Among the contemporary rhetoricians and philosophers who influence Couture are Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Martin Buber, Charles Altieri, Charles Taylor, Alasdair Maclntyre, and Jürgen Habermas.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Barbara Couture is a professor of English at Wayne State University. The editor of Functional Approaches to Writing:  Research Perspectives and Professional Writing: Toward a College Curriculum, she is the coauthor (with Jone Rymer Goldstein) of Cases for Technical and Professional Writing, which won the NCTE Excellence in Technical and Scientific Communication Award for "Best Book."

Barbara Couture is a professor of English at Wayne State University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0809320339
• ISBN 13: 9780809320332
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
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