Rhetoric, Materiality, and Politics

Rhetoric, Materiality, and Politics explores the relationship between rhetorics materiality and the social world in the late modern political context. Taking as their point of departure a reprint of Michael Calvin McGees 1982 call to reconceptualize rhetoric as the palpable experience of sociality, the authors in this volume grapple anew with the role of communication practices in contemporary collective life. Drawing upon the work of Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, and Jacques Derrida, these twelve original essays supplement, extend, and challenge McGees position, collectively advocating on behalf of a shift in theoretical and critical attention from rhetorical materialism to rhetorics materiality.