LOVING THE WORLD APPROPRIATELY
KASTELY, JAMES L
ISBN 10: 0226822109 ISBN 13: 9780226822105
Published by University of Chicago Press, 2022
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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.
About the Author: James L. Kastely is professor of English at the University of Houston. He is the author of Rethinking the Rhetorical Tradition: From Plato to Postmodernism and The Rhetoric of Plato’s Republic: Democracy and the Philosophical Problem of Persuasion.
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Title: LOVING THE WORLD APPROPRIATELY
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication Date: 2022
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: NEW