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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463257503321

Autore

Woodward Gary C

Titolo

Rhetoric of intention in human affairs / / Gary C. Woodward

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-7391-7905-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (162 p.)

Disciplina

153.1/534

Soggetti

Motivation (Psychology)

Intention

Rhetoric

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: How We Know What We Can't; Chapter 2: Them: Conspiracies, Disasters, and Presumed Culpability; Chapter 3: Theater, Acting, and the Sources of Motivation; Chapter 4: The Telepathic Journalist; Chapter 5: Legal Benchmarks for Establishing Intent; Chapter 6: God's Plan: Agency, and the Quandary of Divine Intention; Postscript; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Assumed intentions are embedded in virtually all forms of human discussion. The Rhetoric of Intention in Human Affairs draws on a vast range of resources to describe the social and psychological forces at work in shaping the human impulse to explain why others act.