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- Title
What Does Pragmatic Meliorism Mean for Rhetoric?
- Authors
Stroud, ScottR.
- Abstract
This article considers how rhetorical scholarship might proceed if it were to take the charge of pragmatic meliorism seriously. After discussing the notion of meliorism as employed by John Dewey, I argue that it would involve a radical reshaping of method in rhetorical theory, criticism, and pedagogy. Not all research must be meliorative, but research that is meliorative is characterized by an engagement with lived experience. With this characteristic in mind, I conclude by proposing four maxims that can guide melioristic work in rhetoric.
- Subjects
ESSAYS; RHETORIC education; PRAGMATISM; UTILITARIANISM; DEWEY, John, 1859-1952; MELIORISM (Philosophy)
- Publication
Western Journal of Communication, 2010, Vol 74, Issue 1, p43
- ISSN
1057-0314
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1080/10570310903463737