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The Aesthetics of Argument (Hardcover)
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The Aesthetics of Argument (Hardcover)
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Argument and imagination are often interdependent. The Aesthetics
of Argument is concerned with how this relationship may bear on
argument's concern with truth, not just persuasion, and with the
enhancement of understanding such interdependence may bring. The
rationality of argument, conceived as the advancement of reasons
for or against a claim, is not simply a matter of deductive
validity. Whether arguments are relevant, have force, or look
foolish-or whether an example is telling or merely
illustrative-cannot always be assessed in these terms. Martin
Warner presents a series of case studies which explore how analogy,
metaphor, narrative, image, and symbol can be used in different
ways to frame one domain in terms of another, severally or in
various combinations, and how criteria drawn from the study of
imaginative literature may have a bearing on their truth-aptness.
Such framing can be particularly effective in argumentative roles
which invite self-interrogation, as Plato saw long ago. Narrative
in such cases may be fictional, whether parabolic or dramatic,
autobiographical or biographical, and in certain cases may seek to
show how standard conceptualizations are inadequate. Beyond this,
whether in poetry or prose and not only with respect to narrative,
the "logic" of imagery enables us to make principled sense of our
capacity to grasp imagistically elements of our experience through
words whose use at the imaginative level has transformed their
standard conceptual relationships, and hence judge the credibility
of associated arguments. Assessment of the argumentative
imagination requires criteria drawn not only from dialectic and
rhetoric, but also from poetics.
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