Protreptic Writing
I am grateful to Lambert Wiesing for having described and named a form of writing that does not set out to demonstrate the truth or value of the author’s views as such, but provides...
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Protreptic Writing
Lambert_Wiesing’s book, The Philosophy of Perception (forthcoming from Bloomsbury this August–my translation) contains–among many fine things–a resolution to the question, “How do phenomenologists speak–or write–without appearing to persuade?” Protreptic writing does not argue a...