Rhetoric's Pragmatism

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I

1. From Segregated Schools to Hanging Chads

2. Euro-American Rhetorical Pragmatism

3. Humanist Controversies and Rhetorical Humanism

4. Rhetorical Pragmatism and Histories of New Media

II

5. Making Comparisons

6. Enactment History, Jesuit Practices, and Rhetorical Hermeneutics

7. Jesuit Comparative Theo-rhetoric

III

8. Hermeneutics, Deconstruction, Allegory

9. Theotropic Logology

10. Jesuit Eloquentia Perfecta and Theotropic Logology

11. Rhetorical Ways of Proceeding

IV

12. Judging and Hoping

13. Narrative as Embodied Intensities

14. Conversation with Keith Gilyard

15. Political Theology in Douglass and Melville

Notes

Bibliography

“This book participates in multiple disciplinary conversations as few books do. Steven Mailloux doesn’t even try to be transdisciplinary—after all his years of study and scholarship, it has become natural to him. Thus, while Rhetoric’s Pragmatism will especially appeal to the rhetoric community, it will also be required reading for historians, educators, theologians, scholars in American literature and culture, cultural studies scholars, and the host of scholars in the humanities who want to understand how a refined and expansive project can draw from and influence so many.”

—Jack Selzer, author of Kenneth Burke in Greenwich Village