{"product_id":"9780817359201-lacan-in-public","title":"Lacan in Public","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePsychoanalysis and the Science of Rhetoric\u003cbr\u003eArgues that Lacan's contributions to the theory of rhetoric are substantial and revolutionary and that rhetoric is, in fact, the central concern of Lacan's entire body of work. Lacan's conception of rhetoric, Christian Lundberg argues in \u003cem\u003eLacan in Public\u003c\/em\u003e, upsets and extends the received wisdom of American rhetorical studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLacan in Public\u003c\/i\u003e argues that Lacan’s contributions to the theory of rhetoric are substantial and revolutionary and that rhetoric is, in fact, the central concern of Lacan’s entire body of work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eScholars typically cite Jacques Lacan as a thinker primarily concerned with issues of desire, affect, politics, and pleasure. And though Lacan explicitly contends with some of the pivotal thinkers in the field of rhetoric, rhetoricians have been hesitant to embrace the French thinker both because his writing is difficult and because Lacan’s conception of rhetoric runs counter to the American traditions of rhetoric in composition and communication studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLacan’s conception of rhetoric, Christian Lundberg argues in \u003ci\u003eLacan in Public\u003c\/i\u003e, upsets and extends the received wisdom of American rhetorical studies—that rhetoric is a science, rather than an art; that rhetoric is predicated not on the reciprocal exchange of meanings, but rather on the impossibility of such an exchange; and that rhetoric never achieves a correspondence with the real-world circumstances it attempts to describe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Lundberg shows, Lacan’s work speaks directly to conversations at the center of current rhetorical scholarship, including debates regarding the nature of the public and public discourses, the materiality of rhetoric and agency, and the contours of a theory of persuasion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57974881091958,"sku":"9780817359201","price":23.12,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_34834838.jpg?v=1779983490","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780817359201-lacan-in-public","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}