Este auténtico salvavidas para estudiantes a punto de ahogarse en los remolinos de informaciones, datos y lecturas caóticas permite volver a pisar tierra firme y comenzar a trabajar a gusto con el rumbo correcto, sin despilfarrar energ&iacut...
But the questions he asks are not confined to morality. Returning ethics to its root sense, Booth proposes that the ethical critic will be interested in any effect on the ethos, the total character or quality of tellers and listeners. Ethical criticism...
When should I change my mind? What can I believe and what must I doubt? In this new "philosophy of good reasons" Wayne C. Booth exposes five dogmas of modernism that have too often inhibited efforts to answer these questions. Modern dogmas teach...
In this entertaining collection of essays, Wayne Booth looks for the much-maligned âmiddle groundâ for reasonâa rhetoric that can unite truths of the heart with truths of the head and allow us all to...
This critically acclaimed collection is both a passionate celebration of teaching as a vocation and an argument for rhetoric as the center of liberal education. While Booth provides an eloquent personal account of the pleasures of teaching, he also vigoro...
Perhaps no other critical label has been made to cover more ground than "irony," and in our time irony has come to have so many meanings that by itself it means almost nothing. In this work, Wayne C. Booth cuts through the resulting confusions...