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- Title
Power and the Celebration of the Self: Michel Foucault's Epideictic Rhetoric.
- Authors
Danisch, Robert
- Abstract
I argue that Michel Foucault can be read as practicing a kind of epideictic rhetoric. Foucault's work is epideictic because it tells a history of the present, is concerned with aesthetics, and is involved in uncovering and displaying common cultural values or ideals. Through an analysis of the epideictic dimensions of Foucault's work I link his conception of power to his concern with the self and demonstrate that self-creation is connected to a display of the history of the present. Such a move implies that epideictic is a critical practice for contemporary rhetorical theorists and critics, the significance of which can be extended and developed in the light of Foucault's position on power and human agency.
- Subjects
FOUCAULT, Michel, 1926-1984; EPIDEICTIC oratory; CRITICS; PERSUASION (Rhetoric); SOCIAL values; APOSIOPESIS (Rhetoric); FIGURES of speech; METAPHYSICS; ANCIENT aesthetics
- Publication
Southern Communication Journal, 2006, Vol 71, Issue 3, p291
- ISSN
1041-794X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/10417940600846078