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Introduction

The Introduction argues that witnessing constitutes an important social, political, and moral mode of address in modern public culture. It justifies this main claim while also explaining the basic methodology of the book. The Introduction accordingly defines the following key concepts intrinsic to this study: public culture, relevant notions of modernity and late modernity, rhetorical commonplaces, and witnessing itself. The Introduction thereafter outlines the intended scholarly contributions of the book—including, most especially, an account of witnessing as a rhetorically adaptable medium of communication and, therefore, as a mode of rhetorical invention. It closes, finally, by previewing the case studies in each chapter of this book.

Oxford University Press

Bradford Vivian

Oxford Scholarship Online

2017

Title: Introduction

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The Introduction argues that witnessing constitutes an important social, political, and moral mode of address in modern public culture.

It justifies this main claim while also explaining the basic methodology of the book.

The Introduction accordingly defines the following key concepts intrinsic to this study: public culture, relevant notions of modernity and late modernity, rhetorical commonplaces, and witnessing itself.

The Introduction thereafter outlines the intended scholarly contributions of the book—including, most especially, an account of witnessing as a rhetorically adaptable medium of communication and, therefore, as a mode of rhetorical invention.

It closes, finally, by previewing the case studies in each chapter of this book.

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