TY  - BOOK
AU  - Martin,James
TI  - Psychopolitics of speech: uncivil discourse and the excess of desire 
T2  - Edition Politik
SN  - 3839439191
AV  - BF173 .P793 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Bielefeld
PB  - Transcipt Verlag
KW  - Speech
KW  - Research
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Communication
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Communication in politics
KW  - Psycholinguistics
KW  - Psychoanalysis
KW  - Hate speech
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Preface --; Introduction --; 1. Bodies of speech --; 2. Voicing desire --; 3. Talking to excess --; 4. The force of the bitter argument --; 5. An ethics of speech? --; Conclusion --; Bibliography; 2; b
N2  - The human capacity for speech is forever celebrated as evidence of its innate civility. Why, then, is public discourse often - and today more than ever, it would seem - so uncivil, even delusional? The reason, argues James Martin in this timely book, lies in the way speech works to organise desire. More than knowledge or rational interests, public speech services an unconscious urge for a lost enjoyment, stimulating an excess in subjectivity that moves us in body and mind. Martin draws upon the work of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan as well as other Continental thinkers to set out a new approach to the analysis of rhetoric and answer the troubling question of whether civil discourse can ever hope to escape its obscene underside
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