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The Future of Invention: Rhetoric, Postmodernism, and the Problem of Change

The Future of Invention: Rhetoric, Postmodernism, and the Problem of Change

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PhilosophyLiterary CriticismGeneral Reference

ISBN10: 0791474208
ISBN13: 9780791474204
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jan 8 2009
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

Examines the concept of rhetorical invention from an affirmative, nondialectical perspective.

The Future of Invention links classical rhetorical practices of invention with the philosophical work of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida and proposes that some of the most crucial implications of postmodern theory have gone largely unattended. Drawing on such classical rhetorical concepts as doxa, imitation, kairos, and topos, and engaging key works by Aristotle, Plato, the Sophists, and others, John Muckelbauer demonstrates how rhetorical invention can offer a nondialectical, affirmative sense of change that invites us to rethink the ways in which we read, write, and respond to others.

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