1st Edition

The Language Of Environment A New Rhetoric

By George Myerson, Yvonne Rydin Copyright 1996
    272 Pages
    by Routledge

    272 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 1996. “Environment” challenges modern knowledge and its institutions: academic disciplines, research groups, journals and presses, syllabuses and texts, professions and data banks, media experts and policy advisors. The language of environment makes no policy proposals, it is not prescriptive. But it is an attempt to think about the cultural context of all proposals and prescriptions, the cultures of authority and expertise in our time. How is knowledge made to count, and how do all the different claims connect, or collide?

    The environment and the web of rhetoric; topic analysis, 1; topic analysis, 2; environmental ethos; constitutive figures; figures of resolution; environmental argument - inquiry and change.

    Biography

    George Myerson King’s College London. Yvonne Rydin London School of Economics and Political Science.