{"product_id":"commonplace-witnessing-bradford-vivian-9780190611088","title":"Commonplace Witnessing: Rhetorical Invention, Historical Remembrance, and Public Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCommonplace Witnessing\u003c\/em\u003e examines how citizens, politicians, and civic institutions have adopted idioms of witnessing in recent decades to serve a variety of social, political, and moral ends. The book encourages us to continue expanding and diversifying our normative assumptions about which historical subjects bear witness and how they do so. \u003cem\u003eCommonplace Witnessing\u003c\/em\u003e presupposes that witnessing in modern public culture is a broad and inclusive rhetorical act; that many different types of historical subjects now think and speak of themselves as witnesses; and that the rhetoric of witnessing can be mundane, formulaic, or popular instead of rare and refined. This study builds upon previous literary, philosophical, psychoanalytic, and theological studies of its subject matter in order to analyze witnessing, instead, as a commonplace form of communication and as a prevalent mode of influence regarding the putative realities and lessons of historical injustice or tragedy. It thus weighs both the uses and disadvantages of witnessing as an ordinary feature of modern public life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bradford Vivian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0190611081\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190611088\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/12\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.00d","brand":"Bradford Vivian","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48135943192831,"sku":"9780190611088","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_369f3cf2-f56a-4810-873d-aff4db10dfa0.jpg?v=1770159471","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/commonplace-witnessing-bradford-vivian-9780190611088","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}