Inessential Solidarity Rhetoric and Foreigner Relations

Inessential Solidarity Rhetoric and Foreigner Relations

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Davis, Diane
University of Pittsburgh Press
EAN: 9780822977643
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In <i>Inessential Solidarity,</i> Diane Davis examines critical intersections of rhetoric and sociality in order to revise some of rhetorical theorys basic presumptions. Rather than focus on the arguments and symbolic exchanges through which social relations are defined, Davis exposes an underivable rhetorical imperative, an obligation to respond that is as undeniable as the obligation to age. Situating this response-ability as the condition for, rather than the effect of, symbolic interaction, Davis both dissolves contemporary concerns about linguistic overdetermination and calls into question long-held presumptions about rhetorics relationship with identification, figuration, hermeneutics, agency, and judgment. Spotlighting a rhetorical situation irreducible to symbolic relations, Davis proposes quite provocatively that rhetoricrather than ontology (Aristotle/Heidegger), epistemology (Descartes), or ethics (Levinas)is first philosophy. The subject or symbol-using animal comes into being, Davis argues both with and against Emmanuel Levinas, only inasmuch as it responds to the other; the priority of the other is not a matter of the subjects choice, then, but of its inescapable predicament. Directing the readers attention to this inessential solidarity without which no meaning-making or determinate social relation would be possible, Davis aims to nudge rhetorical studies beyond the epistemological concerns that typically circumscribe theories of persuasion toward the examination of a more fundamental affectability, persuadability, responsivity.
EAN 9780822977643
ISBN 0822977648
Typ produktu Ebook
Vydavatel University of Pittsburgh Press
Datum vydání 14. listopadu 2010
Jazyk English
Země Uruguay
Autoři Davis, Diane
Série Composition, Literacy, and Culture
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