Rhetoric Of The Human Sciences: Language And Argument In Scholarship And Public Affairs - Softcover

Nelson, John S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299110249 ISBN 13: 9780299110246

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990

Synopsis

Opening with an overview of the renewal of interest in rhetoric for inquiries of all kinds, this volume addresses rhetoric in individual disciplines—mathematics, anthropology, psychology, economics, sociology, political science, and history.  Two essays draw from recent literary theory to suggest the contribution of the humanities to the rhetoric of inquiry, and several essays explore communications beyond the academy, particularly in women’s issues, religion, and law.  The final essays speak from the field of communication studies, where the study of rhetoric usually makes its home.

About this title

About the Author:

John S. Nelson is professor of political science at the University of Iowa, Allan Megill is professor of history at the University of Virginia, and Donald N. McCloskey is professor of economics and history at the University  of Iowa.

Review:

“I know of no other work that discusses scientific writing in this way or with this much insight and revelation.  It would be especially useful for a college or university course on the topic.”
—International Journal on the Unity of the Sciences


“Evident . . . is a commitment to clear, elegant writing.   The human sciences envisioned by these writers will be enlivened by metaphor, irony and story-telling.”—Times Higher Educational Supplement

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0299110249
• ISBN 13: 9780299110246
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 408