When Words Lose Their Meaning : Constitutions and Reconstitutions of Language, Character, and Community

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Preface

Acknowledgments

1. A Way of Reading

2. Poetry and the World of Two: Cultural Criticism and the Ideal of Friendship in the Iliad

3. The Dissolution of Meaning: Thucydides' History of His World

4. The Reconstitution of Language and Self in a Community of Two: Plato's Gorgias

5. Making the Reader Make His Language: Swift's A Tale of a Tub

6. Teaching a Language of Morality: Johnson's Rambler Essays

7. ""Conversation, Rational and Playful"" : The Language of Friendship in Jane Austen's Emma. 8. Making a Public World: The Constitution of Language and Community in Burke's Reflections

9. Constituting a Culture of Argument: The Possibilities of American Law

10. An Afterword

Bibliographies and Notes

Index