We have only recently started to challenge the notion that "serious" inquiry can be free of rhetoric, that it can rely exclusively on "hard" fact and "cold" logic in support of its claims. Increasingly, scholars are shifting their attention from methods of proof to the heuristic methods of debate and discussion—the art of rhetoric—to examine how scholarly discourse is shaped by tropes and figures, by the naming and framing of issues, and by the need to adapt arguments to ends, audiences, and circumstances. Herbert W. Simons and the contributors to this important collection of essays provide impressive evidence that the new movement referred to as the rhetorical turn offers a rigorous way to look within and across the disciplines.
The Rhetorical Turn moves from biology to politics via excursions into the rhetorics of psychoanalysis, decision science, and conversational analysis. Topics explored include how rhetorical invention guides scientific invention, how rhetoric assists political judgment, and how it integrates varying approaches to meta-theory. Concluding with four philosophical essays, this volume of case studies demonstrates how the inventive and persuasive dimensions of scholarly discourse point the way to forms of argument appropriate to our postmodern age.
Author(s): Herbert W Simons
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Year: 1990
Language: English
Pages: 0
City: Chicago
Tags: Creatividad;Persuasión (Retórica)
The rhetoric of inquiry as an intellectual movement / Herbert W. Simons --
Bio-rhetorics : moralizing the life sciences / John Lyne --
Scientific discovery and rhetorical invention : the path to Darwin's Origin / John Angus Campbell --
The Origin of species : evolutionary taxonomy as an example of the rhetoric of science / Alan G. Gross --
Psychoanalysis : science or rhetoric? / Tullio Maranhão --
Discursive constraints on the acceptance and rejection of knowledge claims : the conversation about conversation / Robert E. Sanders --
The rhetoric of decision science, or Herbert A. Simon says / Carolyn R. Miller --
Arguing over imcommensurable values : the case of Machiavelli / Eugene Garver --
Narrative figures and subtle persuasions : the rhetoric of MOVE report / Susan Wells --
The rhetoric of the Commons : forum discourse in politics and society / Manfred Stanley --
Political foundations for the rhetoric of inquiry / John S. Nelson --
The checkmate of rhetoric (but can our reason become causes?) / Kenneth J. Gergen --
Reconciling realism and relativism / Joseph Margolis --
Symbolic realism and the dualism of the human sciences : a rhetorical reformulation of the debate between positivism and romanticism / Richard Harvey Brown --
Rhetoric and its double : reflections on the rhetorical turn in the human sciences / Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar.
