Classical rhetorical topics and contemporary historical discourse |
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Authors: | Nancy Struever |
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Affiliation: | (1) Johns Hopkins University, 21218 Baltimore, Maryland, USA |
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Abstract: | This paper suggests a specific contribution of contemporary history and philosophy of science to the theory of history. The pragmatic in the technical sense of analysis of use and user aspects of scientific discourse, and the pragmatist, in the sense of a focus on utility as canon, dimensions of modern philosophy of science illumine the structure of historical inquiry. Simply put, the structure of writing produced by the historical discipline is argumentative. Further, the nature of the historical argumentative strategies is best described by reference to classical rhetorical, to topical modes of argument. |
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Keywords: | historiography rhetoric topical argumentation |
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