John M. Sloop is Professor and Chair-elect of the Department of Communication Studies and Theatre at Vanderbilt University and author of Disciplining Gender: Rhetorics of Sex Identity in Contemporary U.S. Culture.

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The concept of judgment has occupied a place of special importance in the tradition of Western thought.

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Hope's Finitude: An Introduction, Part 1 Judgment and the Theoretical Quagmire, 1 Phronesis in the Gadamer Versus Habermas Debates, 2 Judgment and the Problem of Agency/Accountability: A Postcolonial Critique of Poststructuralist Theory, 3 Decentering Judgment: Toward a Postmodern Communication Ethic, 4 Judgment and Jouissance: Eliot, Freud, and Lacan Read Hamlet, 5 More than Meets the Eye: An Expose on Patriotic Libido and Judgment at the Level of the Image in American War Culture, Part 2 Case Studies in Judgment Calls, 6 "Had Judas Been a Black Man .. . ": Politics, Race, and Gender in African America, 7 The Fictions of Racialized Identities, 8 Judging Parents, 9 Property and Propriety: Rhetoric, Justice, and Lyotard's Differend, Afterword: Justifying, Positioning, Persuading in the Intermediate World