Postmodern Sophistry
Stanley Fish and the Critical Enterprise
Published on 1. January 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
322 pages
978-0-7914-6214-0 (ISBN)
Description
Fifteen prominent scholars from a range of academic disciplines-legal studies, critical legal studies, political science, Jewish studies, rhetoric, and literary studies-explore various aspects of cultural and literary critic Stanley Fish's work. They examine Fish's understanding of how interpretation functions, the various philosophical issues that Fish has addressed or failed to address in his work, and the political consequences of Fish's thought. Stanley Fish responds to the ideas put forth in this book in a detailed Afterword.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Total Illustrations: 0
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
534 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7914-6214-0 (9780791462140)
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Gary A. Olson is Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of South Florida at St. Petersburg. Lynn Worsham is Professor of English at the University of South Florida. Olson is the author of Justifying Belief: Stanley Fish and the Work of Rhetoric, and Olson and Worsham are the coeditors of Critical Intellectuals on Writing, both published by SUNY Press.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Interpretive Authorities
There is Nothing Inside the Text, or, Why No One's Heard of Wolfgang Iser
Michael Berube
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Stanley
Gerald Graff
Theory, Practice, and Ubiquitous Interpretation: The Basics
Martin Stone
Fish and Dworkin on the Work of Interpretation in a Democracy
Gary S. Wihl
Part Two: Philosophical Interventions
Deconstructed to Death? Fish on Freedom
Michael Robertson
The Trouble with (Arguing against) Principle: Stanley Fish's Incomplete Machiavellianism
Ree Way Dasenbrock
Rhetoric, Emotion, and the Justification of Belief
Gary A. Olson and Lynn Worsham
Contingent Universals and Rhetorical Pragmatism
Steven Mailloux
Part Three: Political Prospects
The Estate Agent: Stanley Fish and His Trouble with Principles
Terry Eagleton
Critical Theory and Political Action
Margaret Kohn
Extirpating for Fun and Profit
H. Aram Veeser
Professional Distinction
Evan Watkins
The Consequences of Holocaust Denial
Michael Bernard-Donals
Part Four: Afterword
One More Time
Stanley Fish
Contributors
Index
Introduction
Part One: Interpretive Authorities
There is Nothing Inside the Text, or, Why No One's Heard of Wolfgang Iser
Michael Berube
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Stanley
Gerald Graff
Theory, Practice, and Ubiquitous Interpretation: The Basics
Martin Stone
Fish and Dworkin on the Work of Interpretation in a Democracy
Gary S. Wihl
Part Two: Philosophical Interventions
Deconstructed to Death? Fish on Freedom
Michael Robertson
The Trouble with (Arguing against) Principle: Stanley Fish's Incomplete Machiavellianism
Ree Way Dasenbrock
Rhetoric, Emotion, and the Justification of Belief
Gary A. Olson and Lynn Worsham
Contingent Universals and Rhetorical Pragmatism
Steven Mailloux
Part Three: Political Prospects
The Estate Agent: Stanley Fish and His Trouble with Principles
Terry Eagleton
Critical Theory and Political Action
Margaret Kohn
Extirpating for Fun and Profit
H. Aram Veeser
Professional Distinction
Evan Watkins
The Consequences of Holocaust Denial
Michael Bernard-Donals
Part Four: Afterword
One More Time
Stanley Fish
Contributors
Index