Rhetoric, Language, and Reason

Name: Rhetoric, Language, and Reason
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ISBN: 9780271030470

ISBN-10: 027103047X

ISBN-13: 9780271030470

Edition: 1994

Authors: Michel Meyer

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Contemporary or postmodern thought is based on the lack of foundation. The impossibility of having a principle for philosophy has become a position of principle. As a result, rhetoric has taken over. Content has given way to the priority of form. Michel Meyer's book aims at showing that philosophy as foundational is possible and necessary, and that rhetoric can flourish alongside, but the conception of reason must be changed. Questioning rather than answering must be considered as the guiding principle. What the author calls "problematology" is not only the study of questioning but also the analysis of the reasons why it has been repressed throughout the history of philosophy. Since…

Book details

List price: $40.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 4/15/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 180
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English