Internal rhetorics : toward a history and theory of self-persuasion / Jean Nienkamp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nienkamp, Jean.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Rhetoric--Philosophy.

Rhetoric.

Persuasion (Rhetoric).

Self-talk.

Physical Description:

xiv, 170 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2001]

Contents:

Part 1. Internal Rhetoric in History: Perspectives on Moral Reasoning 7

1. Classical Variations on Internal Rhetoric 9

2. Moral Philosophy and Internal Rhetoric from Bacon to Whately 41

Part 2. Primary Internal Rhetoric: Constituting Rhetorical Selves 79

3. The Twentieth Century: Internal Rhetoric after Freud 81

4. The Construction of Selves by Internal Rhetoric 108

Conclusion: The Rhetorical Self and Moral Agency 125.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-166) and index.

ISBN:

0809324067

OCLC:

45957932