Rhetorical criticism as limit work. From: Western Journal of Communication | Date: June 22, 2002| Author: Bruner, M. Lane | COPYRIGHT 2002 Western States Communications Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Friedrich Nietzsche's aesthetic language philosophy and theory of history, coupled with Michel Foucault's limit attitude, combine to create the foundation for limit work as a form of rhetorical criticism. As a rhetorical theory, limit work is designed to map the limits imposed by identity formation, including the strategies of remembrance accompanying articulations of collective belonging, through the analysis of controversial speech. In this essay, after reviewing the identity logic derive...

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