Rhetoric and Hermeneutics in Our Time

by Jost, Walter; Hyde, Michael J.

• ISBN13: 9780300068368
• ISBN10: 0300068360
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-05-29
• Publisher: Yale Univ Pr

Summary

This thought-provoking book initiates a dialogue among scholars in rhetoric and hermeneutics in many areas of the humanities. Twenty leading thinkers explore the ways these two powerful disciplines inform each other and influence a wide variety of intellectual fields. Walter Jost and Michael J. Hyde organize pivotal topics in rhetoric and hermeneutics with originality, and coherence, dividing their book into four sections: Locating the Disciplines; Inventions and Applications; Arguments and Narratives; and Civic Discourse and Critical Theory. For readers across the humanities, the book demonstrates the usefulness of rhetorical and hermeneutic approaches in literary, philosophical, legal, religious, and political thinking. With its stimulating new perspectives on the revival and interrelation of both rhetoric and hermeneutics, this collection is sure to serve as a benchmark for years to come.

Table of Contents

Prologue	xi
Introduction: Rhetoric and Hermeneutics: Places Along the Way	1	(44)
Walter Jost
Michael J. Hyde
Part I. Locating the Disciplines	45	(104)
1 Rhetoric and Hermeneutics	45	(15)
Hans-George Gadamer
Joel Weinsheimer
2 Rhetoric--Poetics--Hermeneutics	60	(13)
Paul Ricoeur
Robert Harvey
3 On the Tragedy of Hermeneutical Experience	73	(17)
Gerald L. Bruns
4 Toward a Hermeneutics Responsive to Rhetorical Theory	90	(18)
Charles Altieri
5 What Hermeneutics Can Offer Rhetoric	108	(24)
Richard E. Palmer
6 Hermeneutical Circles, Rhetorical Triangles and Transversal Diagonals	132	(17)
Calvin O. Schrag
Part II. Inventions and Applications	149	(86)
7 Humanism and the Resistance to Theory	149	(22)
Victoria Kahn
8 Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and Prudence in the Interpretation of the Constitution	171	(25)
Eugene Garver
9 Hermeneutical Rhetoric	196	(19)
Michael Leff
10 Subtilitas Applicandi in Rhetorical Hermeneutics: Peirce's Gloss and Kelly's Example	215	(20)
Nancy S. Struever
Part III. Arguments and Narratives	235	(78)
11 The Uses of Rhetoric: Indeterminacy in Legal Reasoning, Practical Thinking, and the Interpretation of Literary Figures	235	(19)
Wendy Olmsted
12 Charity, Obscurity, Clarity: Augustine's Search for Rhetoric and Hermeneutics	254	(21)
David Tracy
13 Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and the Interpretation of Scripture: Augustine to Robert of Basevorn	275	(15)
Donald G. Marshall
14 Hermes' Rhetorical Problem: The Dilemma of the Sacred in Philosophical Hermeneutics	290	(23)
Allen Scult
Part IV. Civic Discourse and Critical Theory	313	(82)
15 Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and Ideology-Critique	313	(22)
Hans-Georg Gadamer
G. B. Hess
R. E. Palmer
16 Rhetoric and the Politics of the Literal Sense in Medieval Literary Theory: Aquinas, Wyclif, and the Lollards	335	(23)
Rita Copeland
17 Reason and Rhetoric in Habermas's Theory of Argumentation	358	(20)
William Rehg
18 Articulation and Understanding: The Pragmatic Intimacy Between Rhetoric and Hermeneutics	378	(17)
Steven Mailloux
List of Contributors	395	(2)
Acknowledgments	397	(2)
Index	399