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Record Nr.

UNINA9910741186703321

Titolo

Rhetoric in Neoliberalism / / edited by Kim Hong Nguyen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-39850-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 234 p.)

Collana

Rhetoric, Politics and Society, , 2947-5155

Disciplina

320.014

Soggetti

Communication in politics

America—Politics and government

Political sociology

Political Communication

American Politics

Political Sociology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements -- Rhetoric in Neoliberalism; Kim Hong Nguyen -- Chapter 1: Accountable to Whom? The Rhetorical Circulation of Neoliberal Discourse and its Ambient Effects on Higher Education; Phillip Goodwin, Katrina Miller, and Catherine Chaput -- Chapter 2: Warren Buffett’s Celebrity, Epideictic Ethos, and Neoliberal Humanitarianism; Mark Meister and Carrie Anne Platt -- Chapter 3: Rhetorical Agency in a Neoliberal Age: Foucault, Power, Agency and Ethos; Robert Danisch -- Chapter 4: The Capable American: Ethos, Pathos, and the Governance of Education; Samuel Jay -- Chapter 5: Constitutive Rhetoric in the Age of Neoliberalism; David Seitz and Amanda Tennant -- Chapter 6: Branding Citizens: The Logic(s) of A Few Bad Apples; Jennifer Wingard -- Chapter 7: The Psychotic Discourse of 9/11 Truth; Jodi Dean -- Chapter 8: Computational Culture and the New Platonism in Neoliberal Rhetoric; Gerald Voorhees -- Afterword; Bradford Vivian.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume examines and applies classical and contemporary concepts of rhetorical theory and criticism to the context of late capitalism. Each contributor shows how discourse, its subjects, and power relations are



irrevocably transformed by neoliberalism. The collection analyzes a range of discourses and phenomena in neoliberalism including: higher education reforms, computational culture, Occupy Wall Street protests, the activism of Warren Buffett, and the 9-11 Truth Movement. Together, these chapters explore the contemporary rhetorical production of homo economicus and the various ways in which neoliberalism has become a way of thinking, orienting, and organizing all aspects of life around economized metrics of individualized and individuated success. This book will be of use to students and scholars crossing the fields of media and communication, political science, and sociology.