Stupid Humanism: Folly as Competence in Early Modern and Twenty-First-Century Culture

by Christine Hoffmann

Book Overview

This book frames the undeniably copious 21st-century performances of stupidity that occur within social media as echoes of rhetorical experiments conducted by humanist writers of the Renaissance. Any historical overview of humanism will associate it with copia--abundance of expression--and the rhetorical practices essential to managing it. This book argues that stupidity was and is a synonym for copia, making the humanism of which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319876260
• ISBN13: 9783319876269
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"