Sweet Reason: Rhetoric and the Discourses of Modernity
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In Sweet Reason, Susan Wells presents a rhetorical model for understanding the diverse discourses of modernity. Wells describes modernity as a system of texts which we are only now learning to read. In order to comprehend how these texts organize our world, she argues, we must grasp how reason and desire interact to create meaning. To this end, Wells offers a rhetoric based on an understanding of meaning as intersubjectivity created through...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226893375
ISBN13:9780226893372
Release Date:July 1996
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:295 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"
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