Speaking Hermeneutically: Understanding in the Conduct of a Life

A fruitful consideration of the interplay of hermeneutic theory and rhetorical practice in communication

John Arthos discovers and promotes an organic reciprocity between rhetoric as a humanist practice and hermeneutics as a theoretical comportment. Although these two traditions have a long and rewarding collaboration, it is only now that we begin to realize their potential for radically remaking the way we think and speak as social animals. Arthos marries the performative competencies of rh...