Preface Introduction: After the Carnival Part I: Foundations I. Reason, Rationality, and Rhetoric II. Impersonality and Its Discontents Part II: Applications III. Irony and Reflexivity: Rhetoric and Social Construction IV. Arguments and Appeals: Rhetorics of the Social Sciences V. Dialogues with the Dead: The Rhetorics of History Part III: Implications VI. Conversation, Dialectic, and the Question of Closure Conclusion: A Contention of Rhetorics Notes Index
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