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Index Act, 33, 40-41, 46, 108 (n. 1). See also Pentad Action-motion differential, 25-33, 40, 43-47, 59, 105 (nn. 2, 3), 106 (nn. 6, 7), 107 (nn. 8, 10) Agency, 4-5, 21, 34-35, 42, 51. See also Rhetoric Agent, 35,59. See also Agency; Pentad; Subject Althusser, Louis, 4-5 Analogy, 55-73 Anderson, Perry, 3, 7 Aptitude, 44-45, 47, 49, 53 Audience, 1 Augustine, 61-62 Bergson, Henry, 60, 90 Booth, Wayne, 26, 105 (n. 1) Brock, Bernard, 41 Carlyle, Thomas, 50 Chesebro, James, 40, 106 (nn. 3,6) Courtship, 44, 47, 49 Creation myth, 52, 54, 67, 70 Davidson, Donald, 95 De Man, Paul, 63 Derrida, Jacques: and deconstructive method, 16-19,40,52-53,73,93,105 (n. 4); metaphysics of presence, 2, 79 Dialectic: and the Burkeian system, 5973 ; as essentially human activity, 4549 , 66; and estrangement, 49, 101; Hegelian, 27-28; materialist, 34-35; and the negative, 59-73, 90, 100; and rationality, 47 Differenc~3,4~6~ 8~ 100 Dramatism, 10-12,24,30,33,37,53, 73, 90-91, 93, 107-8 (n. 12), 108 (nn. 15,16) Duncan, Hugh Dalziel, 40-41 Dupre, Louis, 19 Empson, William, 44 Enlightenment concepts, 2, 14, 94 Entitlement, 60 Epistemology, 25, 33, 40, 42,51, 53, 5455 , 108 (n. 2). See Rhetoric as epistemic Farrell, Thomas, 85-95 Fergusson, Francis, 108 (n. 16) Fields, A. Belden, 5 Flax, Jane, 84 Fraser, Nancy, 84-85 Index / 121 Garlitz, R. E., 57 Gassett, Jose Ortega y, 87 Grace, 55-56 Grammar, 24-39 Gramsci, Antonio,S Habermas, Jiirgen: communicative rationality , 81, 83, 89; critique of contradiction , 2; ideal speech situation, 8288 , 93, 101; justification theory of truth, 81; postmetaphysical theory of social change, 8, 76-77, 88; and speech act theory, 76-88; theory of universal pragmatics, 7, 22, 76-88, 93 Hall, Stuart, 5-7 Heath, Robert, 103 (n. 3), 107 (n. 8) Hegel, G. W. E, 28, 60, 65, 90 Heidegger, Martin, 60 Historical materialism, 3, 34 History: as chain of acts, 41; desire and, 13; as origin of being, 55; and/of philosophy , 34-39; rhetoric and, 38, 41, 54; synchronic conception of, 76; teleological conception of, 12-13, 15, 6566 , 70-71; as ultimate agency, 76 Hobbes, Thomas, 67, 69 Hohengarten, Mark, 81 Homo dialecticus. See Dialectic Ibsen, Henrik, 32 Identification, 40-42, 48-49 Intentionality, 94-97 Jameson, Fredric, 10-12 Laclau, Ernesto, 5, 6, 103 (n. 1) Lentriccia, Frank, 9-10, 12-15, 106 (n. 3), 107 (n. 9) Logology, 52-53, 55-73 Lyotard, Jean-Fran~ois, 74 Martin, Bill, 94-95 Marx, Karl, 34-39 Materialism. See Pentad McCarthy, Thomas, 76, 78 Melia, Trevor, 15 Metalepsis, 55-56 Motive, 24-33, 35, 43, 66, 106 (n. 5), 107-8 (n. 12) Mouffe, Chantal, 5 122 / Index Nancy, Jean-Luc, 75 Negative, 53, 58-73, 90, 100. See also Dialectic Nelson, Cary, 60, 66, 67 Nichols, Marie H., 108 (n. 1) Ontology, 25-26, 30, 40, 48,51, 110 (n. 12) Oravec, Christine, 41 Order, 66-68, 70, 89 Pentad, 25,30-35,37,40-41,46, 108 (n. 13), 112 (n. 4) Perelman, Chaim, 87 Perfection, 29 Peters, John, 8 Postmodernism, 1, 74 Poststructuralism, 2-23, 75, 95, 108 (n. 1) Psychoanalysis, 44, 46-47 Purity, 28, 44, 97 Ransom, John Crowe, 108 (n. 16) Rhetoric: Aristotelian definition of, 4; and choice/agency, 4, 13, 41; and courtship, 44-45; as a creative art of reason, 86; deliberative bias, 83-84; and desire, 96-102; as epistemic, 41, 43, 50, 108 (nn. 1, 2); and failure, 99; as figural excess, 103 (n. 1); as fragments of dialectic, III (n. 13); and grammar, 35-39; and history, 43, 50; and identification, 40-51; and judgment , 87; and social change, 4, 8-9, 12, 13, 19, 22-23; as subset of perlocution , 95-97; as ubiquitous trait of communicative praxis, 93 Ruckert, William, 67, 105 (nn. 2,3) Saussure, Ferdinand, 3 Scene, 33, 40-41. See also Pentad Schrag, Calvin 0., 77 Searle, John R., 77 Speech act theory, 77, 86-94 Spivak, Gayatri, 16-18,52,53, 106 (n. 5) Subject: as agent of change, 4, 22-23, 35, 41, 59-60, 75; as category, 1, 75; as locus of intentionality, 94; as nonself -identical, 2, 4, 39, 75, 89; as relational entity, 75; as sovereign, 29, 35, 70,75 Substance: paradox of, 13-14,31-33,59 [3.145.191.22] Project MUSE...

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