Justifying Belief: Stanley Fish and the Work of Rhetoric

The first in-depth study of Stanley Fish's nonliterary writings.

While Stanley Fish has exerted immense influence on the study of seventeenth-century poetry and prose, his most widely read works-and perhaps his most important-are his nonliterary writings. In Justifying Belief, Gary Olson examines Fish's nonliterary work and explains that what unites Fish's interventions in so many seemingly disparate areas of inquiry is his belief in the centrality of rhetoric. Whether he is discussing how d...