Research Catalog

Title

Rhetoric, language, and reason / Michel Meyer.

Author

Meyer, Michel, 1950-

Publication

University Park, PA : Pensylvania State University Press, ©1994.

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Details

Description

vii, 169 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Literature and philosophy

Uniform Title

Literature and philosophy

Subject

• Rhetoric
• Language and languages > Philosophy
• Reasoning
• Meaning (Philosophy)
• Knowledge, Theory of
• Problem solving
• Problem Solving
• epistemology
• rhetoric (discipline)
• Knowledge, Theory of
• Language and languages > Philosophy
• Problem solving
• Reasoning
• Rhetoric
• Geistesgeschichte
• Rhetorik
• Sprachphilosophie
• Retorica
• Taal
• Rede (filosofie)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-165) and index.

Contents

• 1. The Birth of Propositionalism, and How Ontology Became Anthropology: Aristotle and Descartes. 1. From Aristotle to Descartes. 2. The Death of the Subject and the Birth of Modernity. 3. From Propositionalist Irrationalism to Problematological Rationality. 4. From Anthropology to Ethics -- 2. Rhetoric in the Twentieth Century: From Proposition to the Question. 1. Rhetoric and the Intellectual Crisis of Our Time. 2. Rhetoric without Questioning. 3. The Problematological Conception of Language. 4. Literary Rhetoric. 5. Argumentation as a Problematological Inference -- 3. Toward a Rhetoric of Reason. 1. Old and New Rhetoric. 2. From Propositional Rhetoric to Problematological Rhetoric. 3. The Rhetorical Principle of Fiction: The Law of Complementarity. 4. From Propositional Inference to Problematological Inference -- 4. Reasoning with Language. 1. Why Language? 2. The Two Major Categories of Forms. 3. The Epistemic Translation of Questions. 4. The Autonomization of the Spoken and the Written.
• 5. The Proposition as Proposition of an Answer: A New Theory of Reference. 6. What is Meaning? 7. Meaning as the Locus of Dialectic. 8. Argumentation. 9. Literal and Figurative Meaning: The Origin of Messages "Between the Lines," Suggestions, and Other Implicit Conclusions -- 5. How to Give Meaning with Words. 1. The Shortcomings of Current Theories and the Goals of a New One. 2. Meaning and Reference: The Limits and the Questions of the Fregean Conception. 3. When and Why Meaning Is Referential. 4. Judgments as Answers. 5. From Sentential Semantics to Hermeneutics. 6. The Question-View of Language. 7. The Basic Law of Fiction -- 6. The Rationality of Knowledge. 1. The Positivist Conception. 2. Science as a Two-Level Process. 3. Logicism versus Psychologism. 4. The Levels of Questioning and Their Articulation. 5. The Logic of Discovery as Logic of the Problematological Level -- Conclusion: What Is Problematology? 1. Questioning as a New Foundation. 2. Language, Thought, and Fiction.

ISBN

• 0271010576
• 9780271010571
• 0271010584
• 9780271010588
• 0271010574 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

92041696

OCLC

• ocm27070525
• 27070525
• SCSB-2005999

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library