Dialogical Rhetoric : An Essay on Truth and Normativity After Postmodernism Hardback
by W. Slob
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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.
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- Pages:224 pages, IX, 224 p.
- Publisher:Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
- Publication Date:31/10/2002
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- ISBN:9781402009082
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:224 pages, IX, 224 p.
- Publisher:Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
- Publication Date:31/10/2002
- Category:
- ISBN:9781402009082
