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1 online resource : illustrations |
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Intro -- COVER Front -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Sacred Passages, Rhetorical Passwords -- Chapter 2: Engaging a Rhetorical God Developing the Capacities of Mercy and Justice -- Chapter 3: Political Theologies of Sacred Rhetoric -- Chapter 4: How to Undo Truths with Words Reading Texts Both Sacred and Profane in Hobbes and Benjamin -- Chapter 5: Chanting the Supreme Word of Information "Sacred?! Redundant -- Chapter 6: Hacking the Sacred (or Not) Rhetorical Attunements for Ecodelic Imbrication -- Chapter 7: Divining Rhetoric's Future |
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Chapter 8: Where Is the Nuclear Sovereign? -- Chapter 9: From the Cathedral to the Casino The Wager as a Response to the Sacred -- Chapter 10: Rightness in Retrospect Stonewall and the Sacred Call of Kairos -- Chapter 11: Historiography and the Limits of (Sacred) Rhetoric -- index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 13, 2022) |
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Holy, The -- Philosophy
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Rhetoric.
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rhetoric (discipline)
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
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Rhetoric
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Bernard-Donals, Michael F., editor.
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Jensen, Kyle, 1981- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780271089713 |
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0271089717 |
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9780271089737 |
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0271089733 |
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