Rhetorical Minds: Meditations on the Cognitive Science of Persuasion

Rhetorical Minds: Meditations on the Cognitive Science of Persuasion
ISBN-10
1789206707
ISBN-13
9781789206708
Category
Social Science
Pages
318
Language
English
Published
2020-04-01
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Author
Todd Oakley

Description

Minds are rhetorical. From the moment we are born others are shaping our capacity for mental agency. As a meditation on the nature of human thought and action, this book starts with the proposition that human thinking is inherently and irreducibly social, and that the long rhetorical tradition in the West has been a neglected source for thinking about cognition. Each chapter reflects on a different dimension of human thought based on the fundamental proposition that our rhetoric thinks and acts with and through others.

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