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Tables of Contents for Postmodern Sophistry
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
1
10
Part One: Interpretive Authorities
There is Nothing Inside the Text, or, Why No One's Heard of Wolfgang Iser
Michael Bérubé
11
16
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love
Stanley Gerald Graff
27
16
Theory, Practice, and Ubiquitous Interpretation: The Basics
Martin Stone
43
32
Fish and Dworkin on the Work of Interpretation in a Democracy
Gary S. Wihl
75
24
Part Two: Philosophical Interventions
Deconstructed to Death? Fish on Freedom
Michael Robertson
99
28
The Trouble with (Arguing against) Principle: Stanley Fish's Incomplete Machiavellianism
Reed Way Dasenbrock
127
16
Rhetoric, Emotion, and the Justification of Belief
Gary A. Olson and Lynn Worsham
143
14
Contingent Universals and Rhetorical Pragmatism
Steven Mailloux
157
24
Part Three: Political Prospects
The Estate Agent: Stanley Fish and His Trouble with Principles
Terry Eagleton
181
8
Critical Theory and Political Action
Margaret Kohn
189
20
Extirpating for Fun and Profit
H. Aram Veeser
209
22
Professional Distinction
Evan Watkins
231
12
The Consequences of Holocaust Denial
Michael Bernard-Dunals
243
22
Part Four: Afterword
One More Time
Stanley Fish
265
34
Contributors
299
4
Index
303