Rhetorical Animals
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Rhetorical Animals

Boundaries of the Human in the Study of Persuasion

  1. 319 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Rhetorical Animals

Boundaries of the Human in the Study of Persuasion

About this book

For this edited volume, the editors solicited chapters that investigate the place of nonhuman animals in the purview of rhetorical theory; what it would mean to communicate beyond the human community; how rhetoric reveals our "brute roots." In other words, this book investigates themes that enlighten us about likely or possible implications of the animal turn within rhetorical studies. The present book is unique in its focus on the call for nonanthropocentrism in rhetorical studies. Although there have been many hints in recent years that rhetoric is beginning to consider the implications of the animal turn, as yet no other anthology makes this its explicit starting point and sustained objective. Thus, the various contributions to this book promise to further the ongoing debate about what rhetoric might be after it sheds its long-standing humanistic bias.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Rhetorical Animals
  3. Rhetorical Animals
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Part I
  7. EXPANDING BOUNDARIES—INTERNALLY
  8. Chapter 1
  9. Multiple Rhetorical Animals
  10. Chapter 2
  11. A Humanimal Rhetorics of Biological Materiality
  12. Chapter 3
  13. Let’s Listen with Our Feet
  14. Chapter 4
  15. Human Boundary Seepage, Bacterial Rhetorics
  16. Part II
  17. EXPANDING BOUNDARIES—EXTERNALLY
  18. Chapter 5
  19. The Biotic Turn in Rhetoric
  20. Chapter 6
  21. Toward a Rhetorical Ethology
  22. Chapter 7
  23. Beyond a Patriarchal Rhetorical Economy
  24. Chapter 8
  25. Humans, Dolphins, and Other People
  26. Part III
  27. FURTHER EXPANSION: CROSS-SPECIES AND ACROSS CULTURES
  28. Chapter 9
  29. Learning to Howl
  30. Chapter 10
  31. Touring the Sixth Persona
  32. Chapter 11
  33. How Dogs (and Other Nonhuman Animals) Become Interesting
  34. Chapter 12
  35. How to Understand a Parrot’s Words and What You Can Learn from Him
  36. Chapter 13
  37. The Rhetoric of Nonanthropocentric Rhetoric
  38. Index
  39. About the Contributors