Rhetoric in an antifoundational world : language, culture, and pedagogy
Rhetoric / Contingency of language / Short history of rhetoric / Language obscures social change / Toward a "materialist" rhetoric: contingency, constraint, and the eighteenth-century crowd / Decentered subject of feminism: postfeminism and Thelma and Louise / Habermas's rational-critical sphere and the problem of criteria / Foundational thuggery and a rhetoric of subsumption / Hymes, Rorty, and the social-rhetorical construction of meaning / "Too little care": language, politics, and embodiment in the life-world / History and the real / Subject of invention: antifoundationalism and medieval hermeneutics / Royal road: Marxism and the philosophy of science / Beyond antifoundationalism to rhetorical authority: problems defining "cultural literacy" / Composition studies and cultural studies: collapsing boundaries / What we need to know about writing and reading, or Peter Elbow and antifoundationalism / Teaching as a test of knowledge: passion, desire, and the semblance of truth in teaching / Composition in an antifoundational world: a critique and a proposal
Bernard-Donals, Michael F.
Glejzer, Richard R.
Stanley Fish -- Richard Rorty -- Terry Eagleton -- Melanie Eckford-Prossor and Michael Clifford -- Michael Hill -- Linda Frost -- Patricia Roberts -- Frank Farmer -- Robert E. Smith III -- Kurt Spellmeyer -- Charles Sheperdson -- Richard R. Glejzer -- Michael Sprinker -- Patricia Bizzell -- James A. Berlin -- Ellen Gardiner -- David Metzger -- Michael Bernard-Donals.
edited by Michael Bernard-Donals and Richard R. Glejzer.