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Lacan in Public - Psychoanalysis and the Science of Rhetoric (Paperback)
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Lacan in Public - Psychoanalysis and the Science of Rhetoric (Paperback)
Series: Alabama Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique Series
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Lacan in Public argues that Lacan's contributions to the theory of
rhetoric are substantial and revolutionary and that rhetoric is, in
fact, the central concern of Lacan's entire body of work. Scholars
typically cite Jacques Lacan as a thinker primarily concerned with
issues of desire, affect, politics, and pleasure. And though Lacan
explicitly contends with some of the pivotal thinkers in the field
of rhetoric, rhetoricians have been hesitant to embrace the French
thinker both because his writing is difficult and because Lacan's
conception of rhetoric runs counter to the American traditions of
rhetoric in composition and communication studies. Lacan's
conception of rhetoric, Christian Lundberg argues in Lacan in
Public, upsets and extends the received wisdom of American
rhetorical studies-that rhetoric is a science, rather than an art;
that rhetoric is predicated not on the reciprocal exchange of
meanings, but rather on the impossibility of such an exchange; and
that rhetoric never achieves a correspondence with the real-world
circumstances it attempts to describe. As Lundberg shows, Lacan's
work speaks directly to conversations at the center of current
rhetorical scholarship, including debates regarding the nature of
the public and public discourses, the materiality of rhetoric and
agency, and the contours of a theory of persuasion.
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