Rhetorical Agency: Mind, Meshwork, Materiality, Mobility

In recent accounts of rhetoric's storied productivity, commentators have implied, along systematically Kantian lines, albeit with the occasional protestation, that agency must be coextensive with subjectivity. But is that all there is (to 2,500 years' worth of hypothesizing about the ways...

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Main Author: Belikian, Les (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Earth, Milky Way punctum books 2017
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