Doxtader – The Faith and Struggle of Beginning (with) Words

Citation: Doxtader, Erik. “The Faith and Struggle of Beginning (with) Words: On the Turn between Reconciliation and Recognition.” Philosophy & Rhetoric 40.1 (2007): 119-46. Print. Abstract: The article addresses the concepts of reconciliation and recognition, especially in relation to the domains of philosophy and rhetoric. The divorce of philosophy from rhetoric was said by Theodor Adorno to be akin to barbarism, and the title of... Read More

Hawk – A Counter-History of Composition: Toward Methodologies of Complexity

Hawk – A Counter-History of Composition: Toward Methodologies of Complexity Introduction: From Vitalism to Complexity Hawk claims that compositionists consider the term vitalism as an “anything goes” approach to writing and thinking, as an “ahistorical category that subsumes multiple divergent practices, and as an assumed negative counterpart to preferred rhetorical practices that establishes a binary between rhetoric and poetics” (3). ... Read More

CCR601 – R&P 42.3

Bayer, Thora I. “Hegelian Rhetoric.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 42.3 (2009): 203-19. Print Rhetoric is an antistrophe to dialectic (antistrophe is the “turning back” of the chorous on the audience in the traditional ancient Greek play). Kant considered dialectic the “logic of illusion” that occurs when reason takes its powers beyond experience to make claims concerning the nature of the soul, world, and God (203). Kant is responsible... Read More