Rhetoric, Materiality, and Politics (Frontiers in Political Communication) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820497401 ISBN 13: 9780820497402

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2009

Synopsis

Rhetoric, Materiality, and Politics explores the relationship between rhetoric’s materiality and the social world in the late modern political context. Taking as their point of departure a reprint of Michael Calvin McGee’s 1982 call to reconceptualize rhetoric as the palpable «experience» of sociality, the authors in this volume grapple anew with the role of communication practices in contemporary collective life. Drawing upon the work of Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, and Jacques Derrida, these twelve original essays supplement, extend, and challenge McGee’s position, collectively advocating on behalf of a shift in theoretical and critical attention from rhetorical materialism to rhetoric’s materiality.

About this title

About the Author:

The Editors: Barbara A. Biesecker is Professor and Head of the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Georgia. She is the author of Addressing Postmodernity: Kenneth Burke, Rhetoric, and a Theory of Social Change (1997) and 2007 recipient of the Douglas Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award.
John Louis Lucaites is Professor of Rhetoric and Public Culture in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University. He is the co-author (with Celeste Michelle Condit) of Crafting Equality: America’s Anglo-African Word (1993) and (with Robert Hariman) of No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy (2007), as well as several edited collections. He is the current editor of the Quarterly Journal of Speech.

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0820497401
• ISBN 13: 9780820497402
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 358
• Editor: Lucaites John, Biesecker Barbara A.