E 387M
Rhetoric and/as Hermeneutics

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Texts
  • Ronell: Stupidity
  • Jost and Hyde: Rhetoric and Hermeneutics In Our Time
  • Ormiston and Schrift: Transforming the Hermeneutic Context: Nietzsche to Nancy
  • Ballif: Seduction, Sophistry, and the Woman with the Rhetorical Figure
  • Vitanza: Negation, Subjectivity and the history of Rhetoric
  • Heidegger. On the Way to Language
  • Derrida. Of Hospitality
  • Levinas. Otherwise than Being

  • + Essays and chapters that I will provide for you by Heidegger, de Man, Mailloux, Blanchot, and Levinas
  • + Star Trek: The Next Generation (Darmok, episode 102), which I will either show in class or put on reserve in the library