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Rhetorical Realism - Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Ontology of Things (Hardcover)
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Rhetorical Realism - Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Ontology of Things (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
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Rhetorical Realism responds to the surging interest in nonhumans
across the humanities by exploring how realist commitments have
historically accompanied understandings of rhetoric from antiquity
to the present. For a discipline that often defines itself
according to human speech and writing, the nonhuman turn poses a
number of challenges and opportunities for rhetoric. To date, many
of the responses to the nonhuman turn in rhetoric have sought to
address rhetoric's compatibility with new conceptions of
materiality. In Rhetorical Realism, Scot Barnett extends this work
by transforming it into a new historiographic methodology attuned
to the presence and occlusion of things in rhetorical history.
Through investigations of rhetoric's place in Aristotelian
metaphysics, the language invention movement of the seventeenth
century, and postmodern conceptions of rhetoric as an epistemic
art, Barnett's study expands the scope of rhetorical inquiry by
showing how realist ideas have worked to frame rhetoric's scope and
meanings during key moments in its history. Ultimately, Barnett
argues that all versions of rhetoric depend upon some realist
assumptions about the world. Rather than conceive of the nonhuman
as a dramatic turning point in rhetorical theory, Rhetorical
Realism encourages rhetorical theorists to turn another eye toward
what rhetoricians have always done-defining and configuring
rhetoric within a broader ontology of things.
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