Rhetorical Unconsciousness and Political Psychoanalysis

Investigates unintentional forms of persuasion, their political consequences, and our ethical relation to the same. M. Lane Bruner argues that the unintentional ways we are persuaded are far more important than intentional persuasion.

About the author

M. Lane Bruner is professor and chair of the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the author of several books, including Strategies of Remembrance and Repressive Regimes, Aesthetic States, and Arts of Resistance, and his essays have appeared in such journals as the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, and Philosophy and Rhetoric.

Summary

Investigates unintentional forms of persuasion, their political consequences, and our ethical relation to the same. M. Lane Bruner argues that the unintentional ways we are persuaded are far more important than intentional persuasion.

Product details

• Authors: M Lane Bruner, M. Lane Bruner, Michael Lane Bruner
• Publisher: The University of South Carolina Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781611179835
• ISBN: 978-1-61117-983-5
• No. of pages: 244
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 466 g
• Series: Studies in Rhetoric/Communicat; Studies in Rhetoric/Communicat; Studies in Rhetoric/Communication; Studies in Rhetoric & Communic
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Letters, rhetoric; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science