Finitude’s Clamor: Or, Notes toward a Communitarian Literacy

D. Diane Davis

doi:10.58680/ccc20011444

College Composition and Communication Sep 2001

Finitude’s Clamor: Or, Notes toward a Communitarian Literacy

D. Diane Davis

Abstract

To the extent that rhetoric and writing studies bases its theories and pedagogies on the self-present composing subject—the figure of the writer who exists apart from the writing context, from the “world,” from others—it is anti-communitarian. Communication can take place only among beings who are given over to the “outside,” exposed, open to the other’s effraction. This essay therefore calls for the elaboration of a “communitarian” literacy that understands reading and writing as functions of this originary sociality, as expositions not of who one is (identity) but of the fact that “we” are (community).

Journal: College Composition and Communication
Published: 2001-09-01
DOI: 10.58680/ccc20011444
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Topics: rhetorical criticism literacy studies
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