Dialogical rhetoric : an essay on truth and normativity after postmodernism

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    • Slob, Wouter H.
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Dialogical rhetoric : an essay on truth and normativity after postmodernism

by Wouter H. Slob

(Argumentation library / series editors, Frans H. van Eemeren ... [et al.], v. 7)

, c2002

  • : pbk

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Originally published by Kluwer Academic

Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st ed. 2002

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-218) and index

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Description

Contemporary developments in philosophy have declared truth as such troublesome, and not merely gaining access to it. In a systematic survey this study investigates what is at stake when truth is given up. A historical overview shows how the current problem of truth came about, and suggests ways to overcome rather than to repair the problem. A key issue resulting from the loss of truth is the lack of normativity. Truth provided an alternative understanding of normativity. Elaborating on the `dialectical shift' in logic, a dialogico-rhetorical understanding of normativity is presented. Rather than requiring truth, agreement, or rationality, dialogico-rhetorical normativity is the result of a balance of particular standards. This type of normativity is shaped within discussions - by advancing and accepting arguments - and is not located in sets of predetermined rules. The result is a `small' but strong form of normativity. If this understanding of normativity is viable, one of the central problems of contemporary philosophy, the problem of incommensurability, can be seen in a different light. As a result, truth reappears again. Surviving the postmodern criticisms, it is a matter of accountability rather than of description.

Table of Contents

  • Preface. Introduction. 1. Truth
  • what is the problem? 2. A short history of truth and related matters. 3. From dialogue to rhetoric. 4. What is wrong with fallacies? 5. Holistic incommensurability. Conclusion. Endnotes. References. Index.

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  • NCID
    BB16011619
  • ISBN
    • 9781402009099
  • Country Code
    ne
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Dordrecht ; Springer Science+Business Media
  • Pages/Volumes
    vii, 224 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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