1st Edition
The Anthropology of Argument Cultural Foundations of Rhetoric and Reason
By Christopher W. Tindale
Copyright 2021
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
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This innovative text reinvigorates argumentation studies by exploring the experience of argument across cultures, introducing an anthropological perspective into the domains of rhetoric, communication, and philosophy.
The Anthropology of Argument fills an important gap in contemporary argumentation theory by shifting the focus away from the purely propositional element of arguments and onto... Read more
Introduction
1. Early Encounters and the Blending of Argumentative Cultures
2. Beneath the Text: Argumentation and the Pretexts of Orality
3. Intercultural Reason and the Preliminary Conditions of Argumentation
4. The Places of Argument
5. Myth and Argument
6. Reasons in a Narrative Form
7. Reasons and the Power of Oral Traditions
8. Deep Diversity and Deep Disagreement
Conclusion: Recovering Multi-Modal Argumentation
Biography
Christopher W. Tindale is Director of the Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation, and Rhetoric (CRRAR) and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Windsor.
