On Invocatory Rhetoric: Against the Metaphysics of the Other.
This essay explores the figure of invocation across the philosophical and rhetorical traditions in order better to understand its role in symbolic life. From Augustine to Quintilian, and from Lyotard to Lacan, it argues that a rhetorical notion of invocation must extend itself beyond the mere dimens...
| Publicado en: | Journal for the History of Rhetoric (Pennsylvania State University Press) Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 359 - 385 |
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Pennsylvania State University Press
Nov2023
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