Rhetoric in the human sciences

Introduction - Herbert W Simons PART ONE: THE ROLE OF RHETORIC IN THE MAKING OF A SCIENCE The Reality of Construction - John Durham Peters and Eric W Rothenbuhler The Deliberative Character of Strategic Scientific Debates - Jeanine Czubaroff The Rhetorical Construction of Scientific Ethos - Lawrence J Prelli Buridan's Ass - Vito Signorile The Statistical Rhetoric of Science and the Problem of Equiprobability The Rhetorical Invention of Scientific Invention - Alan G Gross The Emergence and Transformation of a Social Norm PART TWO: DISCIPLINARY RHETORICS IN THE HUMAN SCIENCES Distinguishing the Rhetorical from the Real - Herbert W Simons The Case of Psychotherapeutic Placebos Ethnography as Sermonic - W Barnett Pearce and Victoria Chen The Rhetorics of Clifford Geertz and James Clifford Beyond the Rhetoric of Antitheory - Steve Fuller Towards a Revisionist Interpretation of Critical Legal Studies Limits of Consumption - Jenny L Nelson An Ironic Revision of Televisual Experience The Value of Theory in the Academic Market Place - Linda Brodkey The Reception of Structuralist Poetics The Meta-Communicative Role of Epigraphs in Scientific Text Construction - Tamar Katriel and Robert E Sanders PART THREE: PROBLEMATICS OF RHETORICAL ANALYSIS Objectivity, Disagreement and the Rhetoric of Inquiry - William M Keith and Richard A Cherwitz The Rhetoric of Inquiry and the Professional Scholar - Robert Hariman