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John Arthos discovers and promotes an organic reciprocity between rhetoric as a humanist practice and hermeneutics as a theoretical comportment. Although these two traditions have a long and rewarding collaboration, it is only now that we begin to realize their potential for radically remaking the way we think and speak as social animals. Arthos marries the performative competencies of rhetorical practice with the circularity of hermeneutic understanding in a way that redefines the syntax of a humanist education in the twenty-first century. As a counter to the linear, technical rationalism that permeates common culture and educational praxis, Speaking Hermeneutically shows how a hermeneutically inflected rhetoric can lead to refashioning habits of thought and speech, the constitution of personal identity, the conventions of social engagement, and the deliberative practices that form the basis of public institutions. Arthos adapts the hermeneutics of Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Paul Ricoeur to a series of classic rhetorical texts and landmark political moments, modeling the revitalized interchange of traditions in a way that will be accessible to scholars and students in both fields of inquiry.

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  1. Cover
  2. p. 1
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  1. Speaking Hermeneutically
  2. pp. 2-3
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  1. Title
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  1. Copyright
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  1. Dedication
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Series Editor’s Preface
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Preface: Rhetoric and Hermeneutics
  2. pp. xi-xvii
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  1. List of Abbreviations
  2. pp. xviii-19
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  1. Introduction: Involutions
  2. pp. 1-12
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  1. Part 1: Dissolving Binaries
  1. 1. “We can not consecrate”: Between Word and Flesh
  2. pp. 15-23
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  1. 2. The Space of Deliberation and the Time of Decision: Discursive Reciprocities of Self and World
  2. pp. 24-33
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  1. 3. Transitive Agency: Between Person and Text
  2. pp. 34-46
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  1. Part 2: The Circle of Reflection
  1. 4. The History and Structure of the Circle
  2. pp. 49-63
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  1. 5. Thinking Out Loud: The Involutions of Newman’s Mind
  2. pp. 64-75
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  1. 6. Instigating the Event of Understanding: John Jay Chapman in Public and Private
  2. pp. 76-91
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  1. 7. In the Garden of the Tuileries: The Circularity of Narrative Understanding
  2. pp. 92-104
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  1. 8. The Hermeneutic Text: “An infinite web of motivations”
  2. pp. 105-118
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  1. Part 3: The Matrix of Broken Parts
  1. 9. Three Distances
  2. pp. 121-129
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  1. 10. A House Divided: Contingent Judgment and Rhetorical Competence
  2. pp. 130-138
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  1. 11. John Brown’s Body: Pathologies of the Social Imaginary
  2. pp. 139-157
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  1. Afterword: Theory, Practice, and Comportment
  2. pp. 158-160
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  1. Notes
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  1. Bibliography
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  1. Index
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