Rhetorical agency mind, meshwork, materiality, mobility
In recent accounts of rhetoric’s storied productivity, commentators have implied, along systematically Kantian lines, albeit with the occasional protestation, that agency must be coextensive with subjectivity. But is that all there is (to 2,500 years’ worth of hypothesizing about the ways in which c...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Santa Barbara, CA :
Punctum Books
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430522006719 |
| Summary: | In recent accounts of rhetoric’s storied productivity, commentators have implied, along systematically Kantian lines, albeit with the occasional protestation, that agency must be coextensive with subjectivity. But is that all there is (to 2,500 years’ worth of hypothesizing about the ways in which communication might promote social change)? Les Belikian’s answer, drawing not only on traditional and contemporary rhetorical studies but also on Deleuzean thinking, actor-network theory, and object-oriented ontology, takes the form of a quadruply contrarian thesis: Rhetorical agency inheres, irreducibly so, in subjectivity, in conventionality, in transcendence, and in materiality, all of which are themselves always under production. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (v, 178 pages) : illustrations; PDF, digital file(s) Also available in print form |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781947447257 |
