Bhabha – The Location of Culture (selections)

Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture. London: New York, 1994. Print. (Only covering introduction, importance of theory, and mimicry/hybridity) Introduction: Locations of Culture In this introduction B. sketches the move from Modernism meta-narratives of “class” or “gender” toward the individual subject positions of the “post” era: individuations of race, gender, generation, geopolitical locale, sexual orientation,... Read More

Zappen – Kenneth Burke on Dialectical-Rhetorical Transcendence

Citation: Zappen, James P. “Kenneth Burke on Dialectical-Rhetorical Transcendence.” Philosophy & Rhetoric 42.3 (2009): 279-301. Print. Abstract: The article discusses the complex and elusive concept of scholar Kenneth Burke of rhetoric that intertwined and infused with dialectic. The author notes that the connection of rhetoric and dialectic of Burke is well established. He mentions that Burke’s rhetoric as identification is... Read More

McComiskey – Laws, Works, and the End of Days

McComiskey – “Laws, Works, and the End of Days: Rhetorics of Identification, Distinction, and Persuasion in Miqsat Ma’aseh ha-Torah (Dead Sea Scroll 4QMMT)” In this piece M. considers how the 4QMMT sea scroll – a letter – create identification by citing scriptural laws that would be commonly agreed upon; however, the same document also creates distinction by criticizing the Temple priests’ incorrect interpretations of more ambiguous... 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