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Overview"Offers a revised understanding of human subjectivity that avoids the extremes of both traditional humanism and cultural relativism.""Acknowledging the importance of the 'middle voice' of rhetoric is a worthwhile endeavor. For this, Vivian's goals are to be applauded."" - Rhetoric and Public Affairs" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Bradford VivianPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Edition: New ed. Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780791460375ISBN 10: 0791460371 Pages: 243 Publication Date: 11 May 2004 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviews"""Acknowledging the importance of the 'middle voice' of rhetoric is a worthwhile endeavor. For this, Vivian's goals are to be applauded."" — Rhetoric and Public Affairs ""This is a crisply written, broadly informed, and carefully argued work in which the defining tendencies of the Western rhetorical tradition, broadly conceived, are rethought. These tendencies, above all, those pertaining to universalization and representation, are suggestively rethought in light of Nietzsche, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, and other important theorists. Even where one is disposed to disagree with the author (indeed, especially at these points), one can learn much from this work. For it is a painstaking, honest, and admirably clear attempt to not only think anew what has been traditionally supposed but also what has, until now, remained unthought. The particular treatments of ethos, representation, memory, and silence are of value to virtually anyone working in the intersection among various disciplines (e.g., philosophy, rhetoric, literary theory, and cultural studies)."" — Vincent Colapietro, author of Fateful Shapes of Human Freedom: John William Miller and the Crises of Modernity ""Rhetoric is recast in several ways here—and this should be the task of contemporary rhetoricians and rhetorical theorists—to attempt to re-vision rhetoric in ways that are appropriate for the twenty-first century. The author addresses issues of representation, the 'Other,' and silence, for example. I am not familiar with any text that so comprehensively approaches a transformation of the notion of rhetoric."" — Karen A. Foss, coeditor of Contemporary Perspectives on Rhetoric, Third Edition" I am not familiar with any text that so comprehensively approaches a transformation of the notion of rhetoric. Acknowledging the importance of the 'middle voice' of rhetoric is a worthwhile endeavor. For this, Vivian's goals are to be applauded. - Rhetoric and Public Affairs This is a crisply written, broadly informed, and carefully argued work in which the defining tendencies of the Western rhetorical tradition, broadly conceived, are rethought. These tendencies, above all, those pertaining to universalization and representation, are suggestively rethought in light of Nietzsche, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, and other important theorists. Even where one is disposed to disagree with the author (indeed, especially at these points), one can learn much from this work. For it is a painstaking, honest, and admirably clear attempt to not only think anew what has been traditionally supposed but also what has, until now, remained unthought. The particular treatments of ethos, representation, memory, and silence are of value to virtually anyone working in the intersection among various disciplines (e.g., philosophy, rhetoric, literary theory, and cultural studies). - Vincent Colapietro, author of Fateful Shapes of Human Freedom: John William Miller and the Crises of Modernity Rhetoric is recast in several ways here-and this should be the task of contemporary rhetoricians and rhetorical theorists-to attempt to re-vision rhetoric in ways that are appropriate for the twenty-first century. The author addresses issues of representation, the 'Other,' and silence, for example. I am not familiar with any text that so comprehensively approaches a transformation of the notion of rhetoric. - Karen A. Foss, coeditor of Contemporary Perspectives on Rhetoric, Third Edition Author InformationBradford Vivian is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Vanderbilt University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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