Responding to the Sacred: An Inquiry into the Limits of Rhetoric - Hardcover

 
9780271089577: Responding to the Sacred: An Inquiry into the Limits of Rhetoric
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0271089571 ISBN 13: 9780271089577
Verlag: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

With language we name and define all things, and by studying our use of language, rhetoricians can provide an account of these things and thus of our lived experience. The concept of the sacred, however, raises the prospect of the existence of phenomena that transcend the human and physical and cannot be expressed fully by language. The sacred thus reveals limitations to rhetoric.

Featuring essays by some of the foremost scholars of rhetoric working today, this wide-ranging collection of theoretical and methodological studies takes seriously the possibility of the sacred and the challenge it poses to rhetorical inquiry. The contributors engage with religious rhetorics'Jewish, Jesuit, Buddhist, pagan'as well as rationalist, scientific, and postmodern rhetorics, studying, for example, divination in the Platonic tradition, Thomas Hobbes's and Walter Benjamin's accounts of sacred texts, the uncanny algorithms of Big Data, and Hélène Cixous's sacred passages and passwords. From these studies, new definitions of the sacred emerge'along with new rhetorical practices for engaging with the sacred.

This book provides insight into the relation of rhetoric and the sacred, showing the capacity of rhetoric to study the ineffable but also shedding light on the boundaries between them.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michael Bernard-Donals is Chaim Perelman Professor of Rhetoric and Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Focusing mainly on the relation between rhetoric and ethics, he has authored or edited ten books in the field.

Kyle Jensen is Professor of English at Arizona State University and the author of Reimagining Process: Online Writing Archives and the Future of Writing Studies.

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Verlag
Pennsylvania State University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0271089571
ISBN 13 
9780271089577
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
288
Herausgeber
Bernard-Donals Michael, Jensen Kyle
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