The Ethical Fantasy of Rhetorical Theory (Composition, Literacy, and Culture) - Softcover

Buch 45 von 66: Composition, Literacy, and Culture

Allen, Ira

 
9780822965367: The Ethical Fantasy of Rhetorical Theory (Composition, Literacy, and Culture)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0822965364 ISBN 13: 9780822965367
Verlag: UNIV OF PITTSBURGH PR, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Despite its centrality to its field, there is no consensus regarding what rhetorical theory is and why it matters. The Ethical Fantasy of Rhetorical Theory presents a critical examination of rhetorical theory throughout history, in order to develop a unifying vision for the field. Demonstrating that theorists have always been skeptical of yet committed to "truth" (however fantastic), Ira Allen develops rigorous notions of truth and of a "troubled freedom" that spring from rhetoric’s depths. In a sweeping analysis from the sophists Aristotle, and Cicero through Kenneth Burke, Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyceta, and contemporary scholars in English, communication, and rhetoric’s other disciplinary homes, Allen offers a novel definition of rhetorical theory: as the self-consciously ethical study of how humans and other symbolic animals negotiate constraints.
 

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Ira Allen is assistant professor of rhetoric, writing, and digital media studies at Northern Arizona University, and formerly assistant professor of rhetoric and composition at the American University of Beirut. He publishes regularly on rhetoric, democracy, ethics, and writing, and has translated works by Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin, and Werner Hamacher, among others.

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Verlag
UNIV OF PITTSBURGH PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0822965364
ISBN 13 
9780822965367
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
328
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