Critical Expressivism

Critical Expressivism is an ambitious attempt to re-appropriate intelletual territory that has more often been charted by its detractors than by its proponents. Indeed, as Peter Elbow observes in his contribution to this volume, 'As far as I can tell, the term 'expressivist' was coined and used only by people who wanted a word for people they disapproved of and wanted to discredit.' The editors and contributors to this collection invite readers to join them in a new conversation, one informed by 'a belief that the term expressivism continues to have a vitally important function in our field.'