Being Made Strange : Rhetoric Beyond Representation.

Intro -- Being Made Strange -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- RHETORICAL BEING -- Part I: Beyond Representation -- 1. The Subject and Object of Representation -- THE CIRCLE OF METAPHYSICS -- THE END OF RHETORIC? -- A CRISIS OF REPRESENTATION -- THE SUBJECT AND OBJECT OF RHETORIC -- 2. The Ideal of Rhetoric -- LOGOCENTRISM AND RHETORIC -- RHETORIC IN THE ACTIVE VOICE -- Part II: Being Otherwise -- 3. Rhetoric in the Middle Voice -- RHETORIC MADE STRANGER -- THE MIDDLE VOICE OF PERSUASION -- DISCOURSE, FORM, AND ETHOS -- 4. Style without Identity -- STYLE AND HUMANISM -- STYLE REDUX -- POLITICS, ETHICS, AND ALTERITY -- RHETORIC AND STYLE RECONFIGURED -- Part III: Rhetoric and the Politics of Self and Other -- 5. Jefferson's Other -- MEMORY'S DESIRES -- MEMORY'S MEMORY -- 6. The Rest Is Silence -- SILENCE AS REPRESENTATION -- SILENCE AS AN ORIGIN -- SILENCE AS A RHETORICAL CONDITION -- Conclusion: Rhetoric in a Nonmoral Sense -- Notes -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- CONCLUSION -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.

Offers a revised understanding of human subjectivity that avoids the extremes of both traditional humanism and cultural relativism.

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