John Sloop, James Mcdaniel

Judgment Calls (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book puts into contact a variety of responses to the question of judgment in a postmodern age, seeking out the question of how, once solid ground is pulled out from underneath the position of the judge, one continues to 'tread' judgment, to meet obligations while remaining afloat.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429968037
• Artikelnr.: 56792598

Autorenporträt

John M. Sloop is Professor and Chair-elect of the Department of Communication Studies and Theatre at Vanderbilt University and author of Disciplining Gender: Rhetorics of Sex Identity in Contemporary U.S. Culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Hope's Finitude: An Introduction
Part 1 Judgment and the Theoretical Quagmire
1 Phronesis in the Gadamer Versus Habermas Debates
2 Judgment and the Problem of Agency/Accountability: A Postcolonial Critique of Poststructuralist Theory
3 Decentering Judgment: Toward a Postmodern Communication Ethic
4 Judgment and Jouissance: Eliot
Freud
and Lacan Read Hamlet
5 More than Meets the Eye: An Expose on Patriotic Libido and Judgment at the Level of the Image in American War Culture
Part 2 Case Studies in Judgment Calls
6 "Had Judas Been a Black Man .. . ": Politics
Race
and Gender in African America
7 The Fictions of Racialized Identities
8 Judging Parents
9 Property and Propriety: Rhetoric
Justice
and Lyotard's Differend
Afterword: Justifying
Positioning
Persuading in the Intermediate World