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

 
9780271089560: Responding to the Sacred: An Inquiry into the Limits of Rhetoric
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ISBN 10 : 0271089563 ISBN 13 : 9780271089560
Editeur : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Pennsylvania State University Press
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0271089563
ISBN 13 
9780271089560
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
286
Éditeur
Bernard-Donals Michael, Jensen Kyle
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9780271089577: Responding to the Sacred: An Inquiry into the Limits of Rhetoric

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ISBN 10 :  0271089571 ISBN 13 :  9780271089577
Editeur : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021
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