Anderson The Way We Argue Now

A Study in the Cultures of Theory
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2682-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

Amanda Anderson is the Caroline Donovan Professor of English Literature and Department Chair at Johns Hopkins University. Her books include The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment (Princeton) and Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anderson, Amanda

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

Part I. Critical Practices

Chapter 1: Debatable Performances: Restaging Contentious Feminisms 21

Chapter 2: The Temptations of Aggrandized Agency: Feminist Histories and the Horizon of Modernity 46

Part II. Living Universalism

Chapter 3: Cosmopolitanism, Universalism, and the Divided Legacies of Modernity 69

Chapter 4: Realism, Universalism, and the Science of the Human 93

Part III. Ethos and Argument

Chapter 5: Pragmatism and Character 115

Chapter 6: Argument and Ethos 134

Chapter 7: Beyond Sincerity and Authenticity 161: The Ethos of Proceduralism

Index 189

Über Autor(innen)

Amanda Anderson is the Caroline Donovan Professor of English Literature and Department Chair at Johns Hopkins University. Her books include The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment (Princeton) and Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture.