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Introduction To The Special Issue On Method In Communication, Stephen M. Croucher
Introduction To The Special Issue On Method In Communication, Stephen M. Croucher
Speaker & Gavel
Editor's introduction by Stephen M. Croucher from volume 48, issue 1 of Speaker & Gavel.
Complete Issue 48(2)
Speaker & Gavel
Complete digitized issue (volume 48, issue 2) of Speaker & Gavel.
Late Husserl For The Rhetorical Critic, J. Scott Andrews
Late Husserl For The Rhetorical Critic, J. Scott Andrews
Speaker & Gavel
Questions of objectivity are perennial concerns of rhetorical critics—whether it is attainable, what form it takes, and how generally its results may be held. Given the celebrated “particularity” of any given rhetorical act, “objectivity” in rhetorical criticism is generally inadmissible as a standard for evaluation. The most frequent response to such questions is to assume a relativistic critical stance. Another alternative is to take a phenomenological approach—to let “the things” speak for “themselves.” This approach has taken root in communication studies, but less so in rhetorical criticism, given the (false) dilemma that the objectivity-subjectivity dichotomy forces. Edmund Husserl, in his …