{"product_id":"democracy-as-fetish-rsa-series-in-transdisciplinary-rhetoric-13-9780271084862","title":"Democracy as Fetish RSA Series in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA multidisciplinary study of democratic politics that draws on ethnography, political theory, and rhetorical analysis to demonstrate how the rhetorics of democracy have become fetishized.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A combination of conceptual and philosophical analysis and insights from decades of fieldwork, Cintron deftly moves between registers of abstraction and the particularities of everyday struggles to map liberal democracy’s many incoherencies.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Caitlin Frances Bruce \u003ci\u003eThe Quarterly Journal of Speech\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDemocracy as Fetish\u003c\/i\u003e is necessary reading for today. Cintron demonstrates democracy’s fetishization in contemporary theorizing and guides readers through a new framework with the radical potential to explain the political maelström we live in. Cintron wildly blends fieldwork, theory, and textual analysis, constructing what reads like lively dialogue between conversationalists who are excited and invested and who care. \u003ci\u003eDemocracy as Fetish\u003c\/i\u003e will stick with you long after you finish the final pages. Its ideas will return to you in random moments, you will mention it in conversation, and you will recommend it many times over to colleagues and acquaintances.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Sara McKinnon,coeditor of \u003ci\u003eText + Field: Innovations in Rhetorical Method\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“As theorists and critics, we should welcome books that call us to question the ideas and ideals that motivate our scholarship and, more specifically, the way we employ foundational concepts in the study of rhetoric and philosophy. Ralph Cintron’s \u003ci\u003eDemocracy as Fetish\u003c\/i\u003e is one such book.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Sara L. McKinnon \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy and Rhetoric\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Putting a Text into Motion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Democracy Is . . . ?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 The Undocumented Among Us\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Property and Its Entanglements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Closings\/Openings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400808669527,"sku":"9780271084862","price":28.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/democracy-as-fetish-rsa-series-in-transdisciplinary-rhetoric-13-9780271084862","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}