Reference:
Review Excerpts 'Today one can still speak of a conflict between rhetoric and philosophy.... To gain some insight into this topical conflict, we will
undertake an historical and systematic survey of the various facets of this already ancient conflict. In each chapter we shall concentrate on
the past, thus enabling us, in a constant circular movement, to shed light on the network of problems confrinting contemporary thought. The
question continually before us in such a circular movement is: what is actually happening whenever something is said or written?'
(5-6).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | network | philosophy | rhetoric |
thought |
'Plato is aware of the fundamental ambiguity of the word, which may guide a man, but also can lead him astray and deceive him'.
Therefore, Plato is suspicious of speech and prefers dialectic (14).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | ambiguity | dialectic | word |
'Isocrates states that the logos directs ... all thought and action.... An orator is one who, on the basis of long study and constant practice
gains complete control over the logos and has a perfect command of his language' (19).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | action | basis | language |
study |
thought |
'Many outhors adopt the position whereby a redical separation is made between a metaphorical, figurative and transferential use of
language, and an exact, adequate, literal and non-metaphorical use. Science and philosophy essentially exclude any metaphorical use of
language' (116).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | language | literal | philosophy |
science |
'Philosophers who conceive of philosophy as philosophy of language -- both objective and subjective genitive -- are convinced that
something can only be delineated by language signs' (125).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | language | objective | philosophy |
'Speech -- also philosophical speech -- is always an unconcealing and concealing' (126).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | 'Foucault ... claims that "the author neither exactly owns nor is responsible for his texts; he neither produces nor discovers them." This
may be somewhat extreme as other formulations of Foucault's tend to be. However. in asking oneself what exactly literary outputy is, one
soon begins to realize that Foucault is more correct than was at first supposed' (130-1).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | author | correct | literary |
'Intertextuality ... conceives all that one says as a fabric woven into a much wider network of interrelated texts with references to each
other. The speaker or writer is also woven into this fabric. He is not the origin or centre, but is entirely carried along by the network of words
in circulation' (133).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | network | speaker | writer |
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