Rhetorical Agency: Mind, Meshwork, Materiality, Mobility / Les Belikian.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Santa Barbara, CA : : Punctum Books,, 2017. ©2017. |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Edition: | 1st edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (v, 178 pages) :; illustrations; PDF, digital file(s). |
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| 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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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781947447257 1947447254 9781947447240 1947447246 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Les Belikian. |