Being Made Strange

Rhetoric beyond Representation

Bradford Vivian
eISBN-13: 9780791485392

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<p>Offers a revised understanding of human subjectivity that avoids the extremes of both traditional humanism and cultural relativism.</p><p>By elaborating upon pivotal twentieth-century studies in language, representation, and subjectivity, Being Made Strange reorients the study of rhetoric according to the discursive formation of subjectivity. The author develops a theory of how rhetorical practices establish social, political, and ethical relations between self and other, individual and collectivity, good and evil, and past and present. He produces a novel methodology that analyzes not only what an individual says, but also the social, political, and ethical conditions that enable him or her to do so. This book also offers valuable ethical and political insights for the study of subjectivity in philosophy, cultural studies, and critical theory.</p>

ISBNs 9780791485392, 9780791460375, 0791485390
Language English