Sweet Reason by Susan Wells
This volume presents a rhetorical model for understanding the diverse discourses of modernity. Wells describes modernity as a system of texts which we are only now learning to read. In order to comprehend how these texts organize our world, she argues, we must grasp how reason and desire interact to create meaning. To this end, Wells offers a rhetoric based on an understanding of meaning as intersubjectivity created through the work of language. Wells elaborates this "rhetoric of intersubjectivity" by drawing on both Jurgen Habermas's concept of communicative rationality and on Jacques Lacan's theory of desire, affirming the significance of reason and desire for rhetorical studies. From scientific articles to classroom altercations, contemporary government hearings to Montaigne's "Essays", Wells organizes several using rhetoric as an art, and she shows how rhetoric operates in practice.| SKU | Nicht verfügbar |
| ISBN 13 | 9780226893372 |
| ISBN 10 | 0226893375 |
| Titel | Sweet Reason |
| Autor | Susan Wells |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | The University of Chicago Press |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 1996-07-15 |
| Seitenanzahl | 295 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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