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In Rhetorical Investigations Walter Jost juxtaposes problems and questions in philosophy and literature, using rhetoric as the middle term and common ground between them. Drawing on the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Stanley Cavell, among others, Jost joins a small band of contemporary literary critics who are rethinking theory beyond the apriorism of much poststructuralism and its built-in reading against the grain. By elaborating an -ordinary language criticism- stabilized in grammatical and rhetorical possibilities of language rather than in empirical actualities, Jost shows how...

• Assesses rhetoric's place in the larger intellectual universe.
  
• Focuses on the practical side of rhetoric, looking at specific works, problems and figures.
  
• Provides examples of rhetoric from ancient times to the present day.
  
• Written by leading scholars from a variety of different fields.