Prisoners of Conscience: Moral Vernaculars of Political Agency - Couverture rigide

Hauser, Gerard A.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1611170761 ISBN 13 : 9781611170764

Editeur : University of South Carolina Press, 2012

Synopsis

Prisoners of Conscience continues the work begun by Gerard A. Hauser in Vernacular Voices: The Rhetoric of Publics and Public Spheres, winner of the National Communication Association's Hochmuth Nichols Award. In his new book, Hauser examines the discourse of political prisoners, specifically the discourse of prisoners of conscience, as a form of rhetoric in which the vernacular is the main source of available appeals and the foundation for political agency.

Hauser explores how modes of resistance employed by these prisoners constitute what he deems a "thick moral vernacular" rhetoric of human rights. Hauser's work considers in part how these prisoners convert universal commitments to human dignity, agency, and voice into the moral vernacular of the society and culture to which their rhetoric is addressed.

Hauser grounds his study through a series of case studies, each centered on a different rhetorical mechanism brought to bear in the act of resistance. Through a transnational rhetorical analysis of resistance within political prisons, Hauser brings to bear his skills as a rhetorical theorist and critic to illuminate the rhetorical power of resistance as tied to core questions in contemporary humanistic scholarship and public concern.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gerard A. Hauser is a College Professor of Distinction in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Boulder. Editor of the journal Philosophy and Rhetoric, Hauser is the author of Introduction to Rhetorical Theory and Vernacular Voices: The Rhetoric of Publics and Public Spheres.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of South Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1611170761
• ISBN 13: 9781611170764
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
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