Loving the World Appropriately: Persuasion and the Transformation of Subjectivity Kastely James L.
Loving the World Appropriately: Persuasion and the Transformation of Subjectivity Kastely James L. A revolutionary approach to rhetoric that asks why audiences need persuading.What is persuasion? For…
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Loving the World Appropriately: Persuasion and the Transformation of Subjectivity Kastely James L.
A revolutionary approach to rhetoric that asks why audiences need persuading.What is persuasion? For others, persuasion is simply a neutral instrumentality--a valued source of soft power. For some, it is the ideal alternative to violence.
Loving the World Appropriately asks a different, more fundamental, question: why does an audience need persuasion? Both positions rest on a fundamental belief: persuasion is a power that resides in a speaker acting on an audience. In shifting our focus, James Kastely delivers a provocative new history of rhetoric and philosophy, one that describes rhetoric as more than a matter of effective communication and recasts persuasion as a philosophical concern central to notions of human subjectivity.
Ultimately, Kastely insists, persuasion enables us to love the world