Rhetoric of intention in human affairs / / Gary C. Woodward
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| Autore: |
Woodward Gary C
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| Titolo: |
Rhetoric of intention in human affairs / / Gary C. Woodward
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2013] |
| ©2013 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (162 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 153.1/534 |
| Soggetto topico: | Motivation (Psychology) |
| Intention | |
| Rhetoric | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Rhetoric of intention in human affairs |
| ISBN: | 0-7391-7905-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910809921203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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