Download or read book Contingency, Immanence, and the Subject of Rhetoric written by Timothy Richardson and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2013-08-14 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contingency, Immanence, and the Subject of Rhetoric considers rhetoric as the historical counterpoint of philosophical and religious discourses via its correspondences with antique rabbinic exegetical practices and contemporary psychoanalytic insights into causation. Timothy Richardson takes up the rabbinic position to demonstrate how traditional Greco-Christian rhetoric might be insufficient to account for what we now mean by rhetoric as a discipline.