Speaking hermeneutically : understanding in the conduct of a life / John Arthos.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-191) and index.

"We can not consecrate": between word and flesh -- The space of deliberation and the time of decision: discursive reciprocities of self and world -- Transitive agency: between person and text -- The history and structure of the circle -- Thinking out loud: the involutions of Newman's mind -- Instigating the event of understanding: John Jay Chapman in public and private -- In the garden of the Tuileries: the circularity of narrative understanding -- The hermeneutic text: "an infinite web of motivations" -- Three distances -- A house divided: contingent judgment and rhetorical competence -- John Brown's body: pathologies of the social imaginary.

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A fruitful consideration of the interplay of hermeneutic theory and rhetorical practice in communication.

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