Postmodern Sophistry

Gary A. Olson is Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of South Florida at St. Petersburg. Lynn Worsham is Professor of English at the University of South Florida. Olson is the author of Justifying Belief: Stanley Fish and the Work of Rhetoric, and Olson and Worsham are the coeditors of Critical Intellectuals on Writing, both published by SUNY Press.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Interpretive Authorities There is Nothing Inside the Text, or, Why No One's Heard of Wolfgang IserMichael Bérubé How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love StanleyGerald Graff Theory, Practice, and Ubiquitous Interpretation: The BasicsMartin Stone Fish and Dworkin on the Work of Interpretation in a DemocracyGary S. Wihl Part Two: Philosophical Interventions Deconstructed to Death? Fish on FreedomMichael Robertson The Trouble with (Arguing against) Principle: Stanley Fish's Incomplete MachiavellianismRee Way Dasenbrock Rhetoric, Emotion, and the Justification of BeliefGary A. Olson and Lynn Worsham Contingent Universals and Rhetorical PragmatismSteven Mailloux Part Three: Political Prospects The Estate Agent: Stanley Fish and His Trouble with PrinciplesTerry Eagleton Critical Theory and Political ActionMargaret Kohn Extirpating for Fun and ProfitH. Aram Veeser Professional DistinctionEvan Watkins The Consequences of Holocaust DenialMichael Bernard-Donals Part Four: Afterword One More TimeStanley Fish Contributors Index