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The concept of judgment has occupied a place of special importance in the tradition of Western thought. In antiquity and especially in the Enlightenment, judgment served as the rubric under which Western thinkers struggled to come to terms with how the world of human concerns is constituted in thought and, perhaps more important, how humans call for timely and appropriate actions. Recently, judgment has again emerged as a highly contestatory site for philosophical, rhetorical, and cultural reflection and inquiry.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.The essays in this edited volume investigate judgment as a rhetorical problem to be discussed philosophically and examines the standards by which judgments are made and can be made in contemporary culture. The essays clarify the links between rhetoric and judgment as they are played out on public and meta-critical levels.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Cultural studies

• Full title: Judgment Calls
• Author: John M. Sloop, James P. McDaniel
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780813366371
• ISBN: 0813366372
• ID: 04725359
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
• Weight: 500 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. November 1999

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