Culture and Rhetoric / / ed. by Stephen Tyler, Ivo Strecker.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Cannada Bartoli, Vincenzo,; Fernandez, James W.,; Friedrich, Paul,; Gross, Daniel M.,; Hariman, Robert,; Herzfeld, Michael,; Maranda, Pierre,; Meyer, Christian,; Oesterreich, Peter L.,; Paul, Anthony,; Rumsey, Alan,; Salazar, Philippe-Joseph,; Strecker, Ivo,; Tyler, Stephen,; Wiseman, Boris,
• HerausgeberIn: Strecker, Ivo,; Tyler, Stephen,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Rhetoric and Culture ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Part I The Chiasm of Rhetoric and Culture --; CHAPTER 1 The Rhetoric Culture Project --; CHAPTER 2 Precursors of Rhetoric Culture Theory --; CHAPTER 3 Homo Rhetoricus --; CHAPTER 4 Listening Culture --; CHAPTER 5 Practice of Rhetoric, Rhetoric of Practice --; CHAPTER 6 Chiastic Thought and Culture A Reading of Claude Lévi-Strauss --; CHAPTER 7 When Fair Is Foul and Foul Is Fair Lessons from Macbeth --; Part II Figuration—The Persuasive Power of Deeds and Tropes --; CHAPTER 8 Rhetoric, Truth, and the Work of Trope --; CHAPTER 9 Figuration—a Common Ground of Rhetoric and Anthropology --; CHAPTER 10 Tropical Foundations and Foundational Tropes of Culture --; CHAPTER 11 Convictions: Embodied Rhetorics of Earnest Belief --; CHAPTER 12 An Epistemological Query --; CHAPTER 13 Beyond the Unsaid Transcending Language through Language --; CHAPTER 14 Future Imperfect Imagining Rhetorical Culture Theory --; Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781845459291; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9781845459291
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Stephen Tyler, Ivo Strecker.

While some scholars have said that there is no such thing as culture and have urged to abandon the concept altogether, the contributors to this volume overcome this impasse by understanding cultures and their representations for what they ultimately are – rhetorical constructs. These senior, international scholars explore the complex relationships between culture and rhetoric arguing that just as rhetoric is founded in culture, culture is founded in rhetoric. This intersection constitutes the central theme of the first part of the book, while the second is dedicated to the study of figuration as a common ground of rhetoric and anthropology. The book offers a compelling range of theoretical reflections, historical vistas, and empirical investigations, which aim to show how people talk themselves and others into particular modalities of thought and action, and how rhetoric and culture, in this way, are co-emergent. It thus turns a new page in the history of academic discourse by bringing two disciplines – anthropology and rhetoric – together in a way that has never been done before.