work and rhetoric

Stannard67 at aol.com Stannard67 at aol.com
Thu Apr 5 12:41:24 PDT 2001


Ironically, the decline of classical "republican" notions of rhetoric may be related to the decline in collectivist rhetoric, and may explain the failure of American Marxism as an externally (state) and internally (party) enforced "closure" of discursive space. Careful to avoid idealism, though...or as I like to call it, discursive determinism.

James Arnt Aune's 1993 _Rhetoric and Marxism_ details this parallell decline of republicanism and Marxism. He's a bit of an idealist, but is considered "red as a baboon's ass" by his colleagues in communication and rhetorical studies.

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