Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-221) and index.
Contents:
Cross-disciplinary perceptions of Baudrillard and rhetoric -- Biographical sketch: Jean Baudrillard, rhetor -- Part I. Appearance, disappearance, and Jean Baudrillard's rhetoric of symbolic exchange -- Rhetoric, sophistry, and appearance-making -- Baudrillard's art of appearance: the construction of perceptual appearance -- Baudrillard's art of disappearance: the destruction of perceptual appearance -- Symbolic exchange and rhetorical invention -- Part II. Provocations: the many appearances of Jean Baudrillard -- Appearing as aphorist: Baudrillard, writing, and theory -- Appearing as illusionist: Baudrillard, Aristotle, and rhetoric -- Appearing as ignoramus: Baudrillard, Susan Sontag, Ferdinand de Saussure, and rhetoric -- Appearing as ironist: Baudrillard, Kenneth Burke, and rhetoric -- Rhetoric, invention, and symbolic exhange.
Summary:
"This work is the first book-length treatment of Jean Baudrillard as a rhetorical theorist"-- Provided by publisher.
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