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Rhetoric and Human Consciousness

Author : Craig R. Smith
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478635665
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric and Human Consciousness written by Craig R. Smith and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2017-04-12 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For two decades, students and instructors have relied on award-winning author Craig Smith’s detailed description and analysis of rhetorical theories and the historical contexts for major thinkers who advanced them. He employs key themes from important philosophical schools in this well-researched chronicle of rhetoric and human consciousness. One is that rhetoric is a response to uncertainty. The modern philosophers, like the naturalists of ancient Greece and the Scholastics who preceded them, tried to end uncertainty by combining the discoveries of science and psychology with rationalism. Their aim was progress and a consensus among experts as to what truth is. However, where modernism proved ineffective, rhetoric was revived to fill the breach. Another significant theme is that different conceptions of human consciousness lead to different theories of rhetoric, and for every major school of thought, another school of thought forms in reaction. Classic and contemporary examples demonstrate the usefulness of rhetorical theory, especially its ability to inform and guide. By providing probes for rhetorical criticism, discussions also demonstrate that rhetorical criticism illustrates, verifies, and refines rhetorical theory. Thus, the synergistic relationship between theory and criticism in rhetoric is no different than in other arts: Theory informs practice; analysis of successful practice refines theory. Smith’s absorbing study has been expanded to include thorough treatments of rhetoric in the Romantic Era, feminist and queer theory, and historical context for the creation of rhetorical theory and its use in public address.

Rhetoric and Human Consciousness

Author : Craig R. Smith
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478610298
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric and Human Consciousness written by Craig R. Smith and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest edition of Rhetoric and Human Consciousness remains a well-researched, accessible examination of rhetorical theory in Western civilization. Smiths coverage of the major figures who advanced rhetoric is strengthened by his keen analysis of developments in rhetorical theory that resulted from its interaction with other disciplines and the cultures surrounding it. The dialectic between rhetoric and other disciplines (notably philosophy and psychology) illuminate evolving definitions of rhetoric, from myth and display to persuasion and symbolic inducement. Well-chosen, engaging examples demonstrate how rhetoric can find truths, particularly at times when science and reason fail to solve important human crises. Paramount to this well-wrought survey is Smiths ability to show that rhetorical criticism illustrates, verifies, and refines rhetor-ical theory. Thus, the synergistic relationship between theory and criticism in rhetoric is no different than in other arts. Chief among the Fourth Editions enhancements are expanded discussions of the historical context for the creation of rhetorical theory and its use in public address; additional coverage of Isocrates, Cicero, Machiavelli, Kenneth Burke, and Michel Foucault; new material on the rhetoric of civil religion, ideological criticism, constitutive discourse, and feminist rhetorical theory; and many fresh examples. Each chapter ends with questions that sharpen readers retention of concepts and the ability to apply those to everyday life.

Rhetoric and Human Consciousness

Author : Craig R. Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781577665878
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (658 download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric and Human Consciousness written by Craig R. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contemporary Perspectives on Rhetoric

Author : Sonja K. Foss
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478622156
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Perspectives on Rhetoric written by Sonja K. Foss and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anniversary edition marks thirty years of offering an indispensable review and analysis of thinkers who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary rhetorical theory: I. A. Richards, Ernesto Grassi, Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca, Stephen Toulmin, Richard Weaver, Kenneth Burke, Jürgen Habermas, bell hooks, Jean Baudrillard, and Michel Foucault. The brief biographical sketches locate the theorists in time and place, showing how life experiences influenced perspectives on rhetorical thought. The concise explanations of complex concepts are clear, engaging, insightful, and highly accessible, serving as an excellent primer for reading the major works of these scholars. The critical commentary is carefully chosen to highlight implications and to place the theories within a broader rhetorical context. Each chapter ends with a complete bibliography of works by the theorists.

Fighting for Life

Author : Walter J. Ong
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801466288
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Fighting for Life written by Walter J. Ong and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What accounts for the popularity of the macho image, the fanaticism of sports enthusiasts, and the perennial appeal of Don Quixote's ineffectual struggles? In Fighting for Life, Walter J. Ong addresses these and related questions, offering insight into the role of competition in human existence. Focusing on the ways in which human life is affected by contest, Ong argues that the male agonistic drive finds an outlet in games as divergent as football and chess. Demonstrating the importance of contest in biological evolution and in the growth of consciousness out of the unconscious, Ong also shows how adversary procedure has affected social, linguistic, and intellectual history. He discusses shifting patterns of contest in such arenas as spectator sports, politics, business, academia, and religion. Human beings' internalization of agonistic drives, he concludes, can foster the deeper discovery of the self and of distinctively human freedom.

Rhetoric and Human Understanding

Author : Ann Gill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric and Human Understanding written by Ann Gill and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces basic concepts of human signification, explains both primal & contemporary rhetoric experience, & offers challenges to common-sense understandings.

Rhetorical Minds

Author : Todd Oakley
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789206707
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Rhetorical Minds written by Todd Oakley and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minds are rhetorical. From the moment we are born others are shaping our capacity for mental agency. As a meditation on the nature of human thought and action, this book starts with the proposition that human thinking is inherently and irreducibly social, and that the long rhetorical tradition in the West has been a neglected source for thinking about cognition. Each chapter reflects on a different dimension of human thought based on the fundamental proposition that our rhetoric thinks and acts with and through others.

Electric Rhetoric

Author : Kathleen E. Welch
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9780262232029
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Electric Rhetoric written by Kathleen E. Welch and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1999 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathleen E. Welch explores the profound changes in writing and discourse brought about by electronic forms of communication.

Rhetorical Speculations

Author : Scott Sundvall
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607328313
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Rhetorical Speculations written by Scott Sundvall and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future of writing studies is fundamentally tied to advancing technological development—writing cannot be done without a technology and different technologies mediate writing differently. In Rhetorical Speculations, contributors engage with emerging technologies of composition through “speculative modeling” as a strategy for anticipatory, futural thinking for rhetoric and writing studies. Rhetoric and writing studies often engages technological shifts reactively, after the production and reception of rhetoric and writing has changed. This collection allows rhetoric and writing scholars to explore modes of critical speculation into the transformative effect of emerging technologies, particularly as a means to speculate on future shifts in the intellectual, pedagogical, and institutional frameworks of the field. In doing so, the project repositions rhetoric and writing scholars as proprietors of our technological future to come rather than as secondary receivers, critics, and adjusters of the technological present. Major and emerging voices in the field offer a range of styles that include pragmatic, technical, and philosophical approaches to the issue of speculative rhetoric, exploring what new media/writing studies could be—theoretically, pedagogically, and institutionally—as future technologies begin to impinge on the work of writing. Rhetorical Speculations is at the cutting edge of the subject of futures thinking and will have broad appeal to scholars of rhetoric, literacy, futures studies, and material and popular culture. Contributors: Bahareh Brittany Alaei, Sarah J. Arroyo, Kristine L. Blair, Geoffrey V. Carter, Sid Dobrin, Kristie S. Fleckenstein, Steve Holmes, Kyle Jensen, Halcyon Lawrence, Alexander Monea, Sean Morey, Alex Reid, Jeff Rice, Gregory L. Ulmer, Anna Worm

Readings in Contemporary Rhetoric

Author : Karen A. Foss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Readings in Contemporary Rhetoric written by Karen A. Foss and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Darwin's Pharmacy

Author : Richard M. Doyle
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295803002
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Darwin's Pharmacy written by Richard M. Doyle and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are humans unwitting partners in evolution with psychedelic plants? Darwin’s Pharmacy shows they are by weaving the evolutionary theory of sexual selection and the study of rhetoric together with the science and literature of psychedelic drugs. Long suppressed as components of the human tool kit, psychedelic plants can be usefully modeled as “eloquence adjuncts” that intensify a crucial component of sexual selection in humans: discourse. Psychedelic plants seduce us to interact with them, building an ongoing interdependence: rhetoric as evolutionary mechanism. In doing so, they engage our awareness of the noosphere, or thinking stratum of the earth. The realization that the human organism is part of an interconnected ecosystem is an apprehension of immanence that could ultimately benefit the planet and its inhabitants. To explore the rhetoric of the psychedelic experience and its significance to evolution, Doyle takes his readers on an epic journey through the writings of William Burroughs and Kary Mullis, the work of ethnobotanists and anthropologists, and anonymous trip reports. The results offer surprising insights into evolutionary theory, the war on drugs, the internet, and the nature of human consciousness itself. Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xof-t2cAob4

Figures of Entanglement

Author : Christopher N. Gamble
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000426343
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Figures of Entanglement written by Christopher N. Gamble and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent and ongoing "new materialisms" scholarship seeks to fundamentally reshape the humanities and their relationship with the sciences. While this work comprises multiple and varied currents, one of the most important, yet whose distinctive merits are arguably often underappreciated, is that influenced by the theoretical physicist and feminist philosopher Karen Barad. The first volume devoted to bringing Barad’s work into conversation with the disciplines of rhetoric and communication studies, this collection organizes that conversation primarily around her notion of "entanglement", which encourages an understanding of meaning as inherently performative, material, and ecological. In doing so, the essays in this collection variously approach rhetoric as a "figure of entanglement" in ways that contribute to and enrich both rhetoric and Barad’s theorizing. Topics range from politics to breast cancer, genealogy, the trope of academic "turns," Marx’s notion of exchange, and the "prehistoric" emergence of human consciousness. With a new foreword by the editors and afterword by Laurie E. Gries, this collection is otherwise reprinted from the 2016 "Figures of Entanglement" special issue of the journal Review of Communication.

Sophistication

Author : Mark Backman
Publisher : Mark Backman
ISBN 13 : 9780918024916
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (249 download)

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Download or read book Sophistication written by Mark Backman and published by Mark Backman. This book was released on 1991 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rhetorical Criticism

Author : Jim A. Kuypers
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442252731
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Rhetorical Criticism written by Jim A. Kuypers and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its second edition, Rhetorical Criticism: Perspectives in Action presents a thorough, accessible, and well-grounded introduction to contemporary rhetorical criticism. Systematic chapters contributed by noted experts introduce the fundamental aspects of a perspective, provide students with an example to model when writing their own criticism, and address the potentials and pitfalls of the approach. In addition to covering traditional modes of rhetorical criticism, the volume presents less commonly discussed rhetorical perspectives, exposing students to a wide cross-section of techniques.

Cognitive Neural Mechanism of Semantic Rhetoric

Author : Qiaoyun Liao
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000762726
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Cognitive Neural Mechanism of Semantic Rhetoric written by Qiaoyun Liao and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-21 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a necessary supplement to the theoretical exploration into semantic rhetoric, particularly a breakthrough in the study of the relationship between the source domain and target domain involved in the construction of semantic rhetorical discourse. The study focuses on rhetorical expressions constructed by means of semantic variation or deviation of concepts. Based on the holistic cognitive pragmatic model and the framework of impartment and inheritance of connotation and denotation, this book constructs a new framework, the Annotation-Denotation Relevance-Inheritance Model (ADRIM) to explain the construing of semantic rhetoric. Besides, rooted in the Index Hypothesis Theory and the research paradigm of affordance derivation in language comprehension, three ERP experiments on metaphor, irony, and pun, are conducted to demonstrate the psychological reality that people activate possible feature extraction in the process of understanding semantic rhetoric. With those sample analyses and experiments, the feasibility and operability of ADRIM are proved. The book unfolds a combined approach of speculative research and empirical research, and can provide a new methodological alternative for semantic rhetorical studies in different languages. This title will be an essential read to students and scholars of Linguistics, East Asian Studies, and social workers who are interested in Language Studies in general.

Sophistication

Author : Mark Backman
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781090161147
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book Sophistication written by Mark Backman and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The years since its publication in 1991 have proven this book's central thesis--that our digitized, technological culture is controlled by five principles of language and reality that were first enunciated during the fifth century BCE in the city-states of Greece as the basis of the art of rhetoric:Words are toolsImages are realInformation is powerChange is inevitableTruth is relativeThese rhetorical principles have enlivened Western Culture ever since, and they flow into our time in the guise of conflicting concepts of history, politics, education, ethics and aesthetics. These principles shape our innermost thoughts about living well in a world that depends on technological innovation and the embodiment of theory in products as well as in practice. They invest our art and literature with the archetypal themes and symbols by which we portray the most rudimentary emotions. They control the processes of decision-making by which we choose the goods we consume, the leaders we follow, the things we study, and the opinions we believe or doubt. They give rise to the fundamental concepts and methods of our political, cultural, and educational institutions. Most important, as recent history demonstrates, the sophistication of our culture is a Faustian bargain of epic proportions that is played out in all the realms of self-consciousness, self-expression, and self-realization that are defined by rhetoric.

The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences

Author : John S. Nelson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780299110208
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences written by John S. Nelson and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening with an overview of the renewal of interest in rhetoric for inquiries of all kinds, this volume addresses rhetoric in individual disciplines - mathematics, anthropology, psychology, economics, sociology, political science and history. Drawing from recent literary theory, it suggests the contribution of the humanities to the rhetoric of inquiry and explores communications beyond the academy, particulary in women's issues, religion and law. The final essays speak from the field of communication studies, where the study of rhetoric usually makes its home.