{"product_id":"inessential-solidarity-rhetoric-and-foreigner-relations-9780822961222","title":"Inessential Solidarity: Rhetoric and Foreigner Relations","description":"In Inessential Solidarity, Diane Davis examines critical intersections of rhetoric and sociality in order to revise some of rhetorical theory s basic presumptions. Rather than focus on the arguments and symbolic exchanges through which social relations are defined, Davis exposes an underivable rhetorical imperative, an obligation to respond that is as undeniable as the obligation to age. Situating this response-ability as the condition for, rather than the effect of, symbolic interaction, Davis both dissolves contemporary concerns about linguistic overdetermination and calls into question long-held presumptions about rhetoric s relationship with identification, figuration, hermeneutics, agency, and judgment. Spotlighting a rhetorical \\u201csituation\\u201d irreducible to symbolic relations, Davis proposes quite provocatively that rhetoric--rather than ontology (Aristotle\/Heidegger), epistemology (Descartes), or ethics (Levinas)--is \\u201cfirst philosophy.\\u201d The subject or \\u201csymbol-using animal\\u201d comes into being, Davis argues both with and against Emmanuel Levinas, only inasmuch as it responds to the other; the priority of the other is not a matter of the subject's choice, then, but of its inescapable predicament. Directing the reader s attention to this inessential solidarity without which no meaning-making or determinate social relation would be possible, Davis aims to nudge rhetorical studies beyond the epistemological concerns that typically circumscribe theories of persuasion toward the examination of a more fundamental affectability, persuadability, responsivity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Diane Davis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/14\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822961222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiane Davis\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of Rhetoric \u0026amp; Writing and English at the University of Texas at Austin, and she holds the Kenneth Burke Chair of Rhetoric at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Davis is the author of \u003ci\u003eBreaking Up [at] Totality: A Rhetoric of Laughter, \u003c\/i\u003e coauthor of \u003ci\u003eWomen's Ways of Making It in Rhetoric and Composition, \u003c\/i\u003e and editor of \u003ci\u003eReading Ronell\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe UberReader: Selected Works of Avital Ronell.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45371909079155,"sku":"9780822961222","price":81.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_436148ff-c404-4dec-9e1d-530fa55df464.jpg?v=1787052561","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/inessential-solidarity-rhetoric-and-foreigner-relations-9780822961222","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}