Fusing horizons: Standpoint hermeneutics and invitational rhetoric

@article{Ryan2001FusingHS,
  title={Fusing horizons: Standpoint hermeneutics and invitational rhetoric},
  author={Kathleen Ryan and Elizabeth J. Natalie},
  journal={Rhetoric Society Quarterly},
  year={2001},
  volume={31},
  pages={69 - 90},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:28663745}
}
Abstract This essay emends Foss, Foss, and Griffin's invitational rhetoric to strenghten its philosophical undergirdings and release it from unfounded criticism. Standpoint hermeneutical rhetoric is the framework offered to position the theory more solidly in the canon. Three strategic moves include discovering and revising its epistemological stance to reflect Lorraine Code's concepts of knowing others and second personhood; connecting Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics to rhetoric; and… 
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