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Loving the World Appropriately : Persuasion and the Transformation of Subjectivity /

A revolutionary approach to rhetoric that asks why audiences need persuading. What is persuasion? For some, it is the ideal alternative to violence. For others, persuasion is simply a neutral instrumentality-a valued source of soft power. Both positions rest on a fundamental belief: persuasion is a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kastely, James L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2022]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:A revolutionary approach to rhetoric that asks why audiences need persuading. What is persuasion? For some, it is the ideal alternative to violence. For others, persuasion is simply a neutral instrumentality-a valued source of soft power. Both positions rest on a fundamental belief: persuasion is a power that resides in a speaker acting on an audience. Loving the World Appropriately asks a different, more fundamental, question: why does an audience need persuasion? In shifting our focus, James Kastely delivers a provocative new history of rhetoric and philosophy, one that describes rhetoric as more than a matter of effective communication and recasts persuasion as a philosophical concern central to notions of human subjectivity. Ultimately, Kastely insists, persuasion enables us to love the world appropriately.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (264 p.)
ISBN:9780226822112
9783110766509
Acceso:restricted access