A Sense of Urgency: How the Climate Crisis Is Changing Rhetoric - Brossura

Hawhee, Debra

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ISBN 10: 0226826783 ISBN 13: 9780226826783

Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 2023

Riassunto

A study of how the climate crisis is changing human communication from a celebrated rhetorician.

Why is it difficult to talk about climate change? Debra Hawhee argues that contemporary rhetoric relies on classical assumptions about humanity and history that cannot conceive of the present crisis. How do we talk about an unprecedented future or represent planetary interests without privileging our own species? A Sense of Urgency explores four emerging answers, their sheer novelty a record of both the devastation and possible futures of climate change. In developing the arts of magnitude, presence, witness, and feeling, A Sense of Urgency invites us to imagine new ways of thinking with our imperiled planet.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Debra Hawhee is the McCourtney Professor of Civic Deliberation and professor of English and communication arts and sciences at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of two books, including Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw: Animals, Language, Sensation, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2023
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0226826783
• ISBN 13: 9780226826783
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 235
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