About this title: When should I change my mind? What can I believe and what must I doubt? In this new "philosophy of good reasons" Wayne C. Booth exposes five dogmas of modernism that have too often inhibited efforts to answer these questions. Modern dogmas teach that "you cannot reason about values" and that "the job of thought is to doubt whatever can be doubted," and they leave those who accept them crippled in their efforts to think and talk together about whatever concerns them most. They have willed upon us a "befouled rhetorical climate" in which people are driven to two self-destructive extremes- ...
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Date Published: 1974-10-15
ISBN-13:9780226065724ISBN:0226065723
Description: Good. Book is close to being in very good condition...Cover has minor wear...Pages are in good shape, minor comments and underlining are present... read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: Appears to be 1st Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780226065724ISBN:0226065723
Description: Very Good. These lectures, originally given in the Ward-Phillips series at the University of Notre Dame in April of 1971, are intended as an introduction to one of many possible directions in which postmodernist rhetoric about values can earn its legitimacy. 235 pp includes Index and Bibliography. Tight binding. Pages are clean and unmarked. Corner of cover and first few pages are slightly creased. Pictorial cover is very good. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Chicago Press., Chicago
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780226065724ISBN:0226065723
Description: Reprint in trade paperback. 235 pp. Footnotes, appendices, bibliography, index. Minor bend to text block, light rubbing to covers. Text is clean and unmarked. Very Good. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780268005061ISBN:0268005060
Description: Very good in good dust jacket. Dust jacket shows wear. Owner's name in front. Binding tight, text clean and unmarked. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 240 p. Ward-Phillips Lectures in English Language and Literature, 5. read more
Description: Good. Good title in good condition. Pages are clean and tight. DJ shows some light edgewear and bumping. Satisfaction guaranteed. If item not as described, return for refund of purchase price. read more
Description: Acceptable. Cover wear, bent corners, creases to spine and cover, bent pages, previous owners signature! ! ! ! ! Used-Acceptable Default Text. read more
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