This book draws attention to the logical contradictions, unstable premises, and unquestioned assumptions that underlie arguments about Man's distinction, while also demonstrating that the way we think about nonhuman animals is only one possibility among many. Vestiges of older w…
The Rhetorical Invention of Man: A History of Distinguishing Humans from Other Animals draws attention to the logical contradictions, unstable premises, and unquestioned assumptions that underlie arguments about Man's distinction, while also demonstrating that the way we think a…
<Span style=""font-style:italic;"">The Rhetorical Invention of Man examines how the category "Man" has dominated Western thinking since the sixteenth century. This category, a historical anomaly according to Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida, has produced distortions in our ab…
This title critically analyzes a range of sounds on vocal and musical recordings, on the radio, in film, and in cartoons to show how sounsd are used to persuade in subtle ways.