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23%OFFWayne C. Booth - Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent - 9780226065724 - V9780226065724
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Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent

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Description for Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent Paperback. Series: Phoenix Books. Num Pages: 254 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; CF; DSB; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
When should I change my mind? What can I believe and what must I doubt? In this new "philosophy of good reasons" Wayne C. Booth exposes five dogmas of modernism that have too often inhibited efforts to answer these questions. Modern dogmas teach that "you cannot reason about values" and that "the job of thought is to doubt whatever can be doubted," and they leave those who accept them crippled in their efforts to think and talk together about whatever concerns them most. They have willed upon us a "befouled rhetorical climate" in which people are driven to two self-destructive ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1974
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
Series
Phoenix Books
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226065724
SKU
V9780226065724
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