Craig R. Smith
Autor de Rhetoric and Human Consciousness: A History
Sobre El Autor
Craig R. Smith is Professor of Communication Studies at California State University, Long Beach, and serves as director of the Center for First Amendment Studies.
Obras de Craig R. Smith
The Inflation Deception: Six Ways Government Tricks Us...and Seven Ways to Stop It! (2011) 14 copias
The Great Debasement: The 100-Year Dying of the Dollar and How to Get America's Money Back (2012) 9 copias
The Great Withdrawal: How the Progressives' 100-Year Debasement of America and the Dollar Ends (2013) 9 copias
Silencing the Opposition: How the U.S. Government Suppressed Freedom of Expression During Major Crises (1996) 5 copias
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Miembros
Reseñas
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 28
- Miembros
- 124
- Popularidad
- #161,165
- Valoración
- 3.2
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 52
First, I should acknowledge that this book is going to take a couple of readings for me to gain a good grasp on. That said, I think I took enough away from an initial reading to appreciate the larger project and to motivate additional readings.
My first thought when I saw the title and brief description was the call and response in music. There is a relationship but had to set that idea aside so I could better grasp what was being presented. As one does in phenomenology, I had to bracket what I knew or thought I knew in order to observe what was present to me.
I hesitate to put to much of what I took away here because first readings for me are often my (often mis-) understandings. I'll say that the call is something that can be explicit as well as sublime. The response (I still revert back to the musical form) should come from a place of truth, or at least truth-seeking.. For that to happen, the call itself has to originate from, if not a place of truth, a place of desire for truth, a place seeking community in that seeking. My impressions here, while probably not completely accurate to what Smith and Hyde intended, are influenced by recent works I've read and movements I have been active in. In other words, while this book is largely abstract (even when using concrete examples) it is readily applicable to whatever a reader may be actively engaged in. That, for me, makes this a valuable book and worth my time and effort to better understand.
My apologies if I didn't make the book any more clear to you. I hope that I at least gave an idea why it could be a valuable addition to your reading list. Because part of my background is popular culture, I found their analyses of a couple of films very interesting.
Recommended for those interested in rhetoric and communications, both theoretically and practically.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley.… (más)