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Direct linkFredal, James – College English, 2011
The study of bullshit, what the author calls "taurascatics", has been making a splash of late. It was Harry Frankfurt who tossed the stone: his essay "On Bullshit" came out in "Raritan" in 1986, hit the "New York Times" best-seller list as a book in 1995, and has been adopted, adapted, and criticized across the academy since. The ripples spread…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Credibility, Rhetorical Theory, Rhetoric
