Sweet Reason: Rhetoric and the Discourses of Modernity

by Susan Wells

Book Overview

In Sweet Reason, Susan Wells presents a rhetorical model for understanding the diverse discourses of modernity. Wells describes modernity as a system of texts which we are only now learning to read. In order to comprehend how these texts organize our world, she argues, we must grasp how reason and desire interact to create meaning. To this end, Wells offers a rhetoric based on an understanding of meaning as intersubjectivity created through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226893375
• ISBN13: 9780226893372
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"