Five Chapters on Rhetoric: Character, Action, Things, Nothing, and Art

by Michael S. Kochin

Book Overview

Michael Kochin's radical exploration of rhetoric is built around five fundamental concepts that illuminate how rhetoric functions in the public sphere. To speak persuasively is to bring new things into existence--to create a political movement out of a crowd, or an army out of a mob.

Five Chapters on Rhetoric explores our path to things through our judgments of character and action. It shows how speech and writing are used to defend...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271034564
• ISBN13: 9780271034560
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"