Abstract
In a recent anthology, Rhetoric and Philosophy, Richard Cherwitz has assembled a collection of essays by various authors which explore the relationship between rhetoric and a number of philosophical points of view: realism, relativism, critical rationalism, idealism, materialism, existentialism, deconstructionism, and pragmatism. It is not from the contents of that anthology, though, that the present essay takes its start, but from remarks made in a review by William Keith. Keith has doubts about the usefulness of "the relegation of philosophy," as he puts it, "to a set of ‘isms’. With these doubts I think nearly every academic philosopher would heartily concur. He also objects, however, to what he takes to be main assumptions underlying the approach of Cherwitz's project, namely the assumptions that (in Keith's language) "all intellectual projects need foundations, and that the academic field of Philosophy is in charge of those foundations" (91-92).
Journal Title
Iowa Journal of Speech Communication
Volume
24
Issue
2
First Page
47
Last Page
60
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Brinton, Alan
(1992)
"Rhetoric and Philosophy: "Transcending Historical Squabbles","
Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 24:
No.
2, Article 8.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol24/iss2/8
Copyright
©1992 Iowa Communication Association
