Inessential Solidarity by Diane Davis

Inessential Solidarity by Diane Davis

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In Inessential Solidarity, Diane Davis examines critical intersections of rhetoric and sociality in order to revise some of rhetorical theoryÆs basic presumptions.

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Inessential Solidarity by Diane Davis

This work examines critical intersections of rhetoric and solidarity in order to demonstrate that a rhetorical imperativean underivable obligation to respondis the condition for symbolic exchange, and therefore not only for the "art"of rhetoric, but for all determinate relations. Winner of the 2010 JAC W. Ross Winterowd Award

Diane Davis is associate professor of Rhetoric & Writing and English at the University of Texas at Austin, and she holds the Kenneth Burke Chair of Rhetoric at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Davis is the author of Breaking Up [at] Totality: A Rhetoric of Laughter, coauthor of Women's Ways of Making It in Rhetoric and Composition, and editor of Reading Ronell and The UberReader: Selected Works of Avital Ronell.

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ISBN 13 9780822961222
ISBN 10 0822961229
Title Inessential Solidarity
Author Diane Davis
Series Composition Literacy And Culture
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press
Year published 2010-11-14
Number of pages 228
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