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- catalog abstract ""According to Ballif, this search for truth manifests itself among current rhetoric and composition scholars in the form of an assumption that language is primarily communicative (i.e., that language can represent truth more or less faithfully). Ballif shows how invested we are in the notion of truth, in the idea that language represents truth, and in the assumption that the speaking/writing subject has, or should have, some essential relation to truth." "Ballif questions why the profession wants to retain these beliefs in the face of vociferous arguments from "new rhetorics" that the discipline no longer posits a foundational self or truth, and in the face of the poststructuralist critique, which has demonstrated that founding truth is always accomplished by first positing and then negating an "other." As an alternative to this negative and violent rhetorical process, Ballif suggests a turn to sophistry as embodied in the figure of Woman, one with the power to seduce us (literally, to lead astray) from our truth and our demand for it."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11984732.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""According to Ballif, this search for truth manifests itself among current rhetoric and composition scholars in the form of an assumption that language is primarily communicative (i.e., that language can represent truth more or less faithfully). Ballif shows how invested we are in the notion of truth, in the idea that language represents truth, and in the assumption that the speaking/writing subject has, or should have, some essential relation to truth."".
- catalog description ""Ballif questions why the profession wants to retain these beliefs in the face of vociferous arguments from "new rhetorics" that the discipline no longer posits a foundational self or truth, and in the face of the poststructuralist critique, which has demonstrated that founding truth is always accomplished by first positing and then negating an "other." As an alternative to this negative and violent rhetorical process, Ballif suggests a turn to sophistry as embodied in the figure of Woman, one with the power to seduce us (literally, to lead astray) from our truth and our demand for it."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-238) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction. Pre/Script Regarding the Subject of Woman, A Pre/Face Regarding the Figure of Woman -- 1. Business of "Isness": Philosophy Contra Sophistry, Woman, and Other Faithless Phenomena -- 2. Seduction and Sacrificial Gestures: Gorgias, Helen, and Nothing -- 3. Nietzsche and the Other Woman: On Forgetting in an Extra-Moral Sense -- 4. Apres l'orgie: Baudrillard and the Seduction of Truth -- 5. Seduction and the "Third Sophistic": (Femme) Fatale Tactics Contra Fetal Pedagogies, Critical Practices, and Neopragmatic Politics.".
- catalog extent "xii, 246 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Seduction, sophistry, and the woman with the rhetorical figure.".
- catalog identifier "0809323338".
- catalog isFormatOf "Seduction, sophistry, and the woman with the rhetorical figure.".
- catalog isPartOf "Rhetorical philosophy and theory".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press,".
- catalog relation "Seduction, sophistry, and the woman with the rhetorical figure.".
- catalog subject "809/.93352042 21".
- catalog subject "PN56.5.W64 B28 2001".
- catalog subject "Rhetoric History.".
- catalog subject "Woman (Philosophy)".
- catalog subject "Women and literature.".
- catalog subject "Women in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction. Pre/Script Regarding the Subject of Woman, A Pre/Face Regarding the Figure of Woman -- 1. Business of "Isness": Philosophy Contra Sophistry, Woman, and Other Faithless Phenomena -- 2. Seduction and Sacrificial Gestures: Gorgias, Helen, and Nothing -- 3. Nietzsche and the Other Woman: On Forgetting in an Extra-Moral Sense -- 4. Apres l'orgie: Baudrillard and the Seduction of Truth -- 5. Seduction and the "Third Sophistic": (Femme) Fatale Tactics Contra Fetal Pedagogies, Critical Practices, and Neopragmatic Politics.".
- catalog title "Seduction, sophistry, and the woman with the rhetorical figure / Michelle Ballif.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".