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Dialogical Rhetoric

Dialogical Rhetoric

An Essay on Truth and Normativity After Postmodernism

by W. Slob
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Publication Date: 31/10/2002

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Contemporary developments in philosophy have declared the concept of truth to be troublesome. 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 this important concept. 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.
ISBN:
9781402009099
9781402009099
Category:
Philosophy: logic
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
31-10-2002
Language:
English
Publisher:
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
224
Dimensions (mm):
235x155x12mm
Weight:
0.76kg

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