Bicycling, Motorcycling, Rhetoric, and Space explores bicycling and motorcycling as serious forms of communication and thought, analyzing how everyday movements function in modern and postmodern contexts and how they inform our thoughts and interactions. It contributes to various academic fields within the liberal arts and humanities and establishes bicycling and motorcycling as important social, theoretical, and political areas of inquiry.

Format: Hardback
Length: 244 pages
Publication date: 03 October 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Bicycling, motorcycling, rhetoric, and space are examined in this book as significant forms of communication and thought. Hunter H. Fine uses cultural studies, rhetorical theory, and political philosophy to analyze how everyday movements function in modern and postmodern contexts. He uncovers the social meanings behind human-powered and motorized forms of cycling through the lenses of sophistic rhetoric and poststructuralist theory. Throughout history, this informing process has promoted specific ways of thinking that have resulted in moments of protest, conquest, awareness, and transgression, which all involve a cycling rhetoric. This book contributes to various academic fields within the liberal arts and humanities while further establishing bicycling and motorcycling as important social, theoretical, and political areas of inquiry. Scholars of rhetoric, communication studies, cultural studies, and philosophy will find this book of particular interest.

Bicycling, Motorcycling, Rhetoric, and Space: A Cultural Analysis of Human-Powered and Motorized Forms of Cycling

Bicycling, motorcycling, rhetoric, and space are examined in this book as significant forms of communication and thought. Hunter H. Fine uses cultural studies, rhetorical theory, and political philosophy to analyze how everyday movements function in modern and postmodern contexts. He uncovers the social meanings behind human-powered and motorized forms of cycling through the lenses of sophistic rhetoric and poststructuralist theory. Throughout history, this informing process has promoted specific ways of thinking that have resulted in moments of protest, conquest, awareness, and transgression, which all involve a cycling rhetoric. This book contributes to various academic fields within the liberal arts and humanities while further establishing bicycling and motorcycling as important social, theoretical, and political areas of inquiry. Scholars of rhetoric, communication studies, cultural studies, and philosophy will find this book of particular interest.

Weight: 518g
Dimension: 159 x 235 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781666928464