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OverviewA 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: James L. KastelyPublisher: The University of Chicago Press Imprint: University of Chicago Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.481kg ISBN: 9780226822105ISBN 10: 0226822109 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 08 December 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: The Problem of Persuasion Chapter 2: Persuasion, Liberal Alienation, and Hegemony Chapter 3: The Eros of Sameness and the Rhetoric of Difference in Plato’s Phaedrus Chapter 4: Responsiveness: Toward a Theory of Rhetorical Subjectivity Chapter 5: Persuasion, Conceptualization, and Emotion: Reconstituting Subjectivity Chapter 6: The Individual and Political Persuasion Chapter 7: Persuasion, Tragedy, and Transformative Discourse Chapter 8: The Ethics of Persuasion Chapter 9: Conclusion: Persuasion in Light of Post-Structural Rhetoric Acknowledgments Works Cited IndexReviewsLoving the World Appropriately presents a robust rhetorical theory of mind on its way to an entirely new formulation of persuasion. And Kastely is just the scholar to present such a theory. The resulting account is by turns riveting, delightful, and weighty. -- Debra Hawhee, Pennsylvania State University Author InformationJames 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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