Publication

1998 - Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, Illinois

Language

English

Word Count

59,000 words, Guess

Page Count

236 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number97025211
  • Goodreads3571294
  • LibraryThing8337281

Classifications

  • DDC808/.0427
  • LCCPE1404 .C65 1998

Description

Current Rhetorical and Critical theory for the most part separates writing from consciousness and presumes relative truth to be the only possible expressive goal for rhetoric. These presumptions are reflected in our tradition of persuasive rhetoric, which values writing that successfully argues one person's belief at the expense of another's. In this book, Barbara Couture presents a case for a phenomenological rhetoric, one that values and respects consciousness and selfhood and that restores to rhetoric the possibility of seeking an all-embracing truth through pacific and cooperative interaction.

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