Finitude after after finitude
2014-06
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Finitude after after finitude
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This work represents my efforts to rethink the relationship between philosophical materialism and contemporary rhetorical studies along the lines of Quentin Meillassoux's speculative materialism. Cast as an allegory to Michael Calvin McGee's essay "A Materialist's Conception of Rhetoric," the first portion of this work examines the historical evolution of theories of materialist rhetoric as a response to an antecedent turn towards hermeneutics in rhetorical criticism. I claim that, although they represent complex institutional responses to the "hermeneutic" tradition in rhetoric, what have been called "materialist" theories of rhetoric do not fundamentally escape that tradition, and therefore have little to do with materialism. In part two, I examine Slavoj Zizek's speech at Zucotti Park on October 9, 2011. In doing so I uncover some analytical difficulties the "human microphone" poses for both "hermeneutic" and "materialist" rhetoric, and offer alternative connections to philosophy as new ways for rhetoricians to discuss proletarian organization.
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University of Minnesota M.S. thesis. June 2014. Major: Communication Studies. Advisor: Ronald W. Greene. 1 computer file (PDF); ii, 78 pages.
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Frank, Jay Alexander. (2014). Finitude after after finitude. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/165470.
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