On the continuing utility of argument in a postmodern world |
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| Authors: | Richard A. Cherwitz and Thomas J. Darwin |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Speech Communication, The University of Texas at Austin, 78712 Austin, Texas, USA;(2) Deparment of Theatre and Communication Arts, The University of Memphis, 38152 Memphis, Tennessee, USA |
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| Abstract: | In this essay we contend that traditional theories of argument are consonant with and enrich the project of postmodernity. Reading postmodernity as  a rhetoric underscores how the process of discursively resolving conflicts is occasionally threatened by politically motivated efforts to misuse the methods of argument; it alerts us to the egregious acts that are and can be performed in the name of, but not because of, rationality. Postmodernity is thus an attempt by a new generation of theorists to recast and draw attention to perennial philosophical problems in the context of contemporary political difficulties. |
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| Keywords: | Argument burden of proof difference evidence foundationalism incommensurability logic modernity opposition postmodernity premodernity presumption rationality reason self self risk Derrida Foucault Lyotard |
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