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Classification, Rhetoric, and the Classificatory Horizon

Paling, Stephen

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Title
Classification, Rhetoric, and the Classificatory Horizon
Author(s)
Paling, Stephen
Issue Date
2004
Keyword(s)
  • Philosophy of information
  • Library science --Philosophy
  • Information science --Philosophy
Abstract
Bibliography provides a compelling vantage from which to study the interconnection of classification, rhetoric, and the making of knowledge. Bibliography, and the related activities of classification and retrieval, bears a direct relationship to textual studies and rhetoric. The paper examines this relationship by briefly tracing the development of bibliography forward into issues concomitant with the emergence of classification for retrieval. A striking similarity to problems raised in rhetoric and which spring from common concerns and intellectual sources is demonstrated around Gadamer’s notion of intellectual horizon. Classification takes place within a horizon of material conditions and social constraints that are best viewed through a hermeneutic or deconstructive lens, termed the “classificatory horizon.”
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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Copyright owned by Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. 2004.

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Library Trends 52 (3) Winter 2004: The Philosophy of Information PRIMARY
Library Trends 52 (3) Winter 2004: The Philosophy of Information. Edited by Ken Herold.