Rhetorical Spaces

by Lorraine Code

The arguments in this book are informed at once by the moral-political implications of how knowledge is produced and circulated and by issues of gendered subjectivity. In their critical dimension, these lucid essays engage with the incapacity of the philosophical mainstream's dominant epistemologies to offer regulative principles that guide people in the epistemic projects that figure centrally in their lives. In its constructive dimension, Rhetorical Spaces focuses on developing productive, case-by-case analyses of knowing other people in situations where social-political inequalities create asymmetrical patterns of epistemic power and privilege.

278 pages, Hardcover

First published May 23, 1995

Reviews

[Maryam]

I used Code's idea of rhetorical spaces in the the context of political correctness to show there is an epistemic gap between a PC subject and those she tries to PC them.