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Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent (University of Notre Dame Ward-Phillips Lectures in English L) New edition

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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 extremes—defenders of reason becoming confined to ever narrower notions of logical or experimental proof and defenders of "values" becoming more and more irresponsible in trying to defend the heart, the gut, or the gonads.

Booth traces the consequences of modernist assumptions through a wide range of inquiry and action: in politics, art, music, literature, and in personal efforts to find "identity" or a "self." In casting doubt on systematic doubt, the author finds that the dogmas are being questioned in almost every modern discipline. Suggesting that they be replaced with a rhetoric of "systematic assent," Booth discovers a vast, neglected reservoir of "good reasons"—many of them known to classical students of rhetoric, some still to be explored. These "good reasons" are here restored to intellectual respectability, suggesting the possibility of widespread new inquiry, in all fields, into the question, "When should I change my mind?"
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  1. ISBN-10
    0226065723
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0226065724
  3. Edition
    New edition
  4. Publisher
    University of Chicago Press
  5. Publication date
    October 15, 1974
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    9.03 x 6.03 x 0.55 inches
  8. Print length
    254 pages
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Wayne C. Booth (1921–2005) was the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago.  His many books include The Rhetoric of Fiction and For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Chicago Press; New edition (October 15, 1974)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 254 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0226065723
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0226065724
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.03 x 6.03 x 0.55 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Wayne C. Booth is the George Pullman Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. His many books include The Rhetoric of Fiction and For the Love of It: Amateuring and its Rivals, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Well written, but so, so wrong.
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Two of the great critic/theorists of the 20th century--Wayne Booth and Kenneth Burke--had a tendency to write engagingly but read uncritically. Booth, in this entertaining defense of practical reason, misreads 20th century philosophy, conflating critical rationalism and logical positivism. In doing so he sets up the straw man that many social-constructionists and post-modernists knock down. He and they view rational discourse as a monolithic structure, and don't see the internal dialogue and controversy within the critical domain. Still worth reading, but off the mark.
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