Inessential Solidarity: Rhetoric and Foreigner Relations

by Diane Davis

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822961229
• ISBN13: 9780822961222
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"