Christopher Oldenburg (41 results)

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Paperback. Condition: New. Sacred words often provide succor, summoned to comfort individual victims and entire communities ravaged by acts of violence. History also demonstrates, however, that religious discourse, like rhetoric itself, functions as a pharmakon-both a remedy and a poison. Religious discourse evoked to incite or justify violence functions as a kind of rancor or intense partisan anger that distorts reality, exacerbates harm, and eschews the accountability of its perpetrators. Moreover, a third function of religious rhetoric synthesizes sacred succor and rancor to express the productive tension of righteous indignation employed by speakers to decry violence and demand social justice.This compendium of both historic and contemporary speeches on the intersecting themes of religion, rhetoric, and violence endeavors to complicate the rhetoric/violence binary by interpolating religion (another foundational and cultural belief inextricably entangled with both rhetoric and violence) into the dialectic.…

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Rhetoric, Religion, and Tragic Violence: Sacred Succor and Rancor. Book.

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Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 521 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Stains on bottom edge. Peter Oldenburg (Cover Design) (illustrator).

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Sacred words often provide succor, summoned to comfort individual victims and entire communities ravaged by acts of violence. History also demonstrates, however, that religious discourse, like rhetoric itself, functions as a pharmakon-both a remedy and a poison. Religious discourse evoked to incite or justify violence functions as a kind of rancor or intense partisan anger that distorts reality, exacerbates harm, and eschews the accountability of its perpetrators. Moreover, a third function of religious rhetoric synthesizes sacred succor and rancor to express the productive tension of righteous indignation employed by speakers to decry violence and demand social justice.This compendium of both historic and contemporary speeches on the intersecting themes of religion, rhetoric, and violence endeavors to complicate the rhetoric/violence binary by interpolating religion (another foundational and cultural belief inextricably entangled with both rhetoric and violence) into the dialectic. …

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Paperback. Condition: New. Sacred words often provide succor, summoned to comfort individual victims and entire communities ravaged by acts of violence. History also demonstrates, however, that religious discourse, like rhetoric itself, functions as a pharmakon-both a remedy and a poison. Religious discourse evoked to incite or justify violence functions as a kind of rancor or intense partisan anger that distorts reality, exacerbates harm, and eschews the accountability of its perpetrators. Moreover, a third function of religious rhetoric synthesizes sacred succor and rancor to express the productive tension of righteous indignation employed by speakers to decry violence and demand social justice.This compendium of both historic and contemporary speeches on the intersecting themes of religion, rhetoric, and violence endeavors to complicate the rhetoric/violence binary by interpolating religion (another foundational and cultural belief inextricably entangled with both rhetoric and violence) into the dialectic.…

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Buch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Sacred words often provide succor, summoned to comfort individual victims and entire communities ravaged by acts of violence. History also demonstrates, however, that religious discourse, like rhetoric itself, functions as a pharmakon-both a remedy and a poison. Religious discourse evoked to incite or justify violence functions as a kind of rancor or intense partisan anger that distorts reality, exacerbates harm, and eschews the accountability of its perpetrators. Moreover, a third function of religious rhetoric synthesizes sacred succor and rancor to express the productive tension of righteous indignation employed by speakers to decry violence and demand social justice.This compendium of both historic and contemporary speeches on the intersecting themes of religion, rhetoric, and violence endeavors to complicate the rhetoric/violence binary by interpolating religion (another foundational and cultural belief inextricably entangled with both rhetoric and violence) into the dialectic.…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 210 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near Fine staple-bound paperback. Overall a bright and attractive copy. No signs of wear or aging. Illustrated throughout, with 3 fold-out plates.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Excellent overall condition of this rare issue of Design Quarterly. Lightly bumped at bottom corner of the back extending from the back cover in several pages but not disrupting the content, including the fold out pieces by Tony Shafrazi. Now in custom cut mylar. Includes work by Le Corbusier, Robert Grovrenor, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Marcel Duchamp, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Morris, Tony Shafrazi, Richard Hamilton, Joe Goode, Ed Ruscha, Lucas Samaras, Eduardo Paolazzo, Bob Graham and Walter De Maria.…

Condition: Very Good. FORM FOLLOWS FICTION Design Quarterly 73 ed. Christopher Finch Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1969 Original edition. Slim quarto. Saddle stitched thick printed wrappers. 3 fold-outs Very good condition.