Vivian Being Made Strange

Rhetoric beyond Representation
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8539-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 243 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in Communication Studies

Offers a revised understanding of human subjectivity that avoids the extremes of both traditional humanism and cultural relativism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vivian, Bradford

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction
Rhetorical Being
Part I: Beyond Representation
1. The Subject and Object of Representation
The Circle of Metaphysics
The End of Rhetoric?
A Crisis of Representation
The Subject and Object of Rhetoric
2. The Ideal of Rhetoric
Logocentrism and Rhetoric
Rhetoric in the Active Voice
Part II: Being Otherwise
3. Rhetoric in the Middle Voice
Rhetoric Made Stranger
The Middle Voice of Persuasion
Discourse, Form, and Ethos
4. Style without Identity
Style and Humanism
Style Redux
Politics, Ethics, and Alterity
Rhetoric and Style Reconfigured
Part III: Rhetoric and the Politics of Self and Other
5. Jefferson's Other
Memory's Desires
Memory's Memory
6. The Rest Is Silence
Silence as Representation
Silence as an Origin
Silence as a Rhetorical Condition
Conclusion: Rhetoric in a Nonmoral Sense
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bradford Vivian is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Vanderbilt University.