Arguing the Case: Language and Play in Argumentation
by Marc Silver
Over the past thirty years there has been an intense scrutiny brought to bear upon the ways in which various disciplines deploy rhetorical devices to “argue their case,” as well as to consolidate their identities and maintain them intact.
In Arguing the Case: Language and Play in Argumentation, Prof. Marc Silver builds his own argument upon such topical foundations, but also shifts the ground in new and original ways. For he is not content merely to “deconstruct” the discourse founding the disciplines he studies – the political, the legal, the scientific, the literary, and the psychoanalytic. He consistently attempts to reveal the rhetorical, logical and philosophical rules as well as the paradoxes and aporias, which subtend and sustain the disciplines which he illuminates.
Employing analytical methods deriving from linguistics, logic, psychoanalysis and cultural and literary criticism, he reveals the common premises and common illusions behind the claims being made about the “human sciences” today.
Please order a copy of the 164-page book Arguing the Case: Language and Play in Argumentation, by Marc Silver.
published by Adams Press, Chicago, IL, USA.
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