Stupid Humanism: Folly as Competence in Early Modern and Twenty-First-Century Culture

by Christine Hoffmann

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This book frames the undeniably copious 21st-century performances of stupidity that occur within social media as echoes of rhetorical experiments conducted by humanist writers of the Renaissance. Any historical overview of humanism will associate it with copia--abundance of expression--and the rhetorical practices essential to managing it. This book argues that stupidity was and is a synonym for copia, making the humanism of which...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:3319876260

ISBN13:9783319876269

Release Date:May 2018

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:192 Pages

Weight:0.56 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"

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