Rhetoric and the Gift: Ancient Rhetorical and Contemporary Communication
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Rhetoric and the Gift explores rhetoric not only at the level of the artful response but at the level of the call and response, or said another way, at the level of the gift and rhetoric prior to and in excess of art, not as some rudimentary system of relating that awaits systematic and philosophical development but as some thing, some event, some moment, other than art, other than techne, incommensurable even, meaning outside the system of exchange altogether, beyond exchangist figures, meaning other than signification, other than symbols, yet always ready within and functioning.
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