Philosophy and Rhetoric

ISSNs: 0031-8213, 1527-2079

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    Death, Love, and the Long Repeat: Repetition’s Burden in Lady Jane Lumley’s The Tragedie of Euripides called Iphigenia translated out of Greake into Englisshe.Kate Bolton Bonnici - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 57 (4):435-461.
    ABSTRACT This interdisciplinary article brings continental philosophy and rhetorical theory to an exploration of crucial scenes between Iphigenia and her mother Clytemnestra in Lady Jane Lumley’s sixteenth-century manuscript translation of Euripides’s Iphigenia at Aulis. In Lumley’s translation, mother and daughter model—through listening to each other, through repetition, and through their ineffective and yet constitutive arguments as Iphigenia approaches death—how the living may allow the dying to become dead, each opening toward the other without closure even as they separate. The article (...)
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    Wrenching Democracy from Rhetoric: Rancière, Ancient Rhetoric, and Demagoguery.José G. Izaguirre - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 57 (4):411-434.
    ABSTRACT A recent surge among scholars of rhetoric seeking to refine and redefine approaches to the study of demagoguery and its rhetorical contours supplies an opportunity to raise a related yet more fundamental question: What is rhetoric’s relationship to democracy, demagoguery’s presupposed injured? Inspired by Jacques Rancière and a rereading of ancient Greek sources, this article seeks to complicate the relationship between rhetoric and democracy by narrowing in on the activity of the dēmos, a political entity undersigning both democracy and (...)
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    Books of Interest.Michael Kennedy - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 57 (4):474-480.
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    The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault.Stuart J. Murray - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 57 (4):462-473.
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    “I’m Not Surprised, But...”: Knowingness and Moral Judgment.Ben Roth - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 57 (4):367-389.
    ABSTRACT What pattern of mind is revealed by the increasingly common turn of phrase “I’m not surprised, but I am disappointed”? Three thinkers who though very influential elsewhere have little cache in contemporary ethical theory—Richard Rorty, Peter Sloterdijk, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick—suggest that what they call (respectively) knowingness, cynicism, and paranoid interpretation are endemic to our times. Building on their work, this article argues that knowing confirmation that the (terrible) way things are trending is what we expected all along has (...)
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    Intellectual Grandstanding: An Epistemic Bad in Argument.Lucy Alsip Vollbrecht - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 57 (4):390-410.
    ABSTRACT There is a growing body of literature on virtue signaling or moral grandstanding, but relatively little has been said about virtue signaling’s cousin, intellect signaling or intellectual grandstanding. This article develops a working definition of intellectual grandstanding as it occurs in argumentative contexts. With this definition in hand, this article argues that intellectual grandstanding impedes epistemic success in argument on each major model of argument today. Intellectual grandstanding in argument fails to respect other arguers, it sustains disagreements, and it (...)
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    The Living from the Dead: Disaffirming Biopolitics.Michelle Ballif - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 57 (3):347-355.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:The Living from the Dead: Disaffirming Biopolitics by Stuart J. MurrayMichelle BallifThe Living from the Dead: Disaffirming Biopolitics, by Stuart J. Murray. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, The RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetorics, 2022. 207 pp. ISBN 9780271093413 (hardback) $109.95 ISBN 9780271093406 (paper) $27.50If we but listen, we can hear a voice from the grave—Jacques Derrida's mournful lamentation: "There is no longer, there has never been a (...)
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    Can Rational Persuasion Be Epistemically Paternalistic?Patrick Bondy - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 57 (3):319-332.
    ABSTRACT This article addresses two related questions about belief, inquiry, and persuasion. The first is a question about the nature of epistemic paternalism, which is, roughly, the activity of interfering in other people’s inquiry, for their own epistemic benefit. The second question is about rational persuasion, and whether it can ever be paternalistic, or (better) whether it can be disrespectful and prima facie wrong in the same way that at least some cases of paternalism are disrespectful and prima facie wrong. (...)
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    Argument’s Autonomy Problem.John Casey - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 57 (3):276-289.
    ABSTRACT Autonomy is foundational to ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of mind, and it has been closely associated with argumentation. What is curious about autonomy is that it has traditionally been explained in terms of reasoning and argument: autonomy involves reasoning because, standardly, someone who’s autonomous is one who thinks things through, who has reasons for their actions. Autonomy regards argument because to respect the autonomy of someone who thinks things through, one must offer them reasons, that is, argue with them. (...)
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    Autonomy and Argumentation: An Introduction.John Casey & Katharina Stevens - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 57 (3):270-275.
    ABSTRACT This introductory article discusses the state of the art in contemporary argumentation theory regarding the relationship between autonomy and argumentation. It introduces the contributions to the special section and discusses their relationship to each other and to the broader debate.
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    Politics Is a Language Google Will Never Know: Barbara Cassin on Knowledge as the Performance of Ongoing Translations.James Dutton - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 57 (3):245-269.
    ABSTRACT This article critiques Google’s conversion of knowledge into information from the perspective of linguistic performance. It claims that the political effects of signification are resistant to discrete or fixed translations, where instead the incalculable dimensions of knowledge emerge between languages—that is, in-translation. To do so, the article reads Barbara Cassin’s extensive work on sophistics, untranslatability theory, and Google itself to argue that the unfinishability of performance, translation, and the dimensions of meaning are the openings to political life. Cassin’s insight, (...)
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    Marshaling Normative Pragmatic Force to Secure Autonomy.Beth Innocenti - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 57 (3):290-305.
    ABSTRACT Speakers’ autonomy as arguers is impaired when they are not recognized as arguers, they can’t get their arguments heard, and their arguments are ignored, dismissed, or used against them. How do speakers cultivate conditions to secure their autonomy as arguers? This article submits that they marshal normative pragmatic force or the practical efficacy of normative materials. To support this claim, this article explains what speakers’ autonomy as arguers comprises. The article then describes three legitimate sources of force in arguing (...)
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    Books of Interest.Michael Kennedy - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 57 (3):356-362.
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    Sophisms and Contempt for Autonomy.Katharina Stevens - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 57 (3):333-346.
    ABSTRACT Argumentation theory tends to treat the distinction between intentional and unintentional fallacies—sophisms and paralogisms—as unimportant for the evaluation of argumentation. The article author believes this is so because argumentation theory tends to be focused on the epistemic functions of argumentation and fallacious arguments pose the same threat to the production of epistemic goods whether they are intentional or not, so the distinction is not needed for the epistemic evaluation of argumentation. This article argues that argumentation has a special connection (...)
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    Conversational Integrity: Argument, Commitment, and Compromise.Jan Albert van Laar - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 57 (3):306-318.
    ABSTRACT What does it mean to have and maintain a position of integrity when reasoning and arguing in a series of different kinds of dialogues? When participants in a critical discussion fail to reach an agreement on the rational merits of their response to a practical problem, they may remain hopeful of reaching a compromise solution in a negotiation dialogue that they perceive as the most rational one that is socially feasible. This article considers whether one’s commitments can be managed (...)
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    Rhetoric’s Unconscious: Freud, Burke, Lacan.Jake Cowan - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 57 (2):141-165.
    ABSTRACT Despite seemingly broad acceptance within rhetorical theory, the category of the unconscious has remained understudied and misunderstood ever since Kenneth Burke first appropriated the concept from psychoanalysis, and his unquestioned commitment to conventional anthropocentric binaries continues to obscure the role and function of the unconscious within communication into this century. Offering a corrective reanalysis of the Freudian apparatus for contemporary rhetoricians, this article shows where Burke went wrong in his early encounter with psychoanalysis and suggests a vital alternative approach (...)
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    Where’s the Rhetoric? Imagining a Unified Field.Joshua Hanan - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 57 (2):218-225.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Where's the Rhetoric? Imagining a Unified Field by S. Scott GrahamJoshua HananWhere's the Rhetoric? Imagining a Unified Field. By S. Scott Graham. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2020. 194 pp. Paperback $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-8142-5771-5.The proliferation of materialist perspectives in rhetorical studies has generated feelings of disciplinary crisis and fragmentation. Early materialist formulations of rhetoric, such as those put forward by Michael Calvin McGee and Raymie McKerrow, conceptualized materiality (...)
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    Style: A Queer Cosmology.Joe Edward Hatfield - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 57 (2):226-232.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Style: A Queer Cosmology by S. Taylor BlackJoe Edward HatfieldStyle: A Queer Cosmology. By Taylor Black. New York: New York University Press, 2023. 304 pp. Hardcover $99.00, paper $35.00. ISBN- 10: 147982500X.Style is a perennial concern within rhetorical studies. As one of Aristotle's five canons, style has inspired a great deal of rhetorical theory over the past two millennia and counting. Hence, it would be reasonable to presume (...)
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    Rhetoric Is Dead? The Fear of Stasis Behind Post-Truth Rhetoric.Eric S. Jenkins - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 57 (2):166-193.
    ABSTRACT Why does post-truth discourse feel true? This article argues that post-truth fears the death of rhetoric, rather than truth, and traces that fear to the voluminous, rapid, and intense production of stasis on social media. Social media enable and weaponize the production of stasis, and that production generates affects more aligned with death than life (stagnation, hopelessness) that explain why post-truth feels true. These fears and their concomitant hopes constitute an affective economy also present in philosophy’s predominant images of (...)
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    (14 other versions)Books of Interest.Michael Kennedy - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 57 (2):233-239.
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    Vector Rhetoric: GPT’s Rhetorical Agency.Douglas Kulchar - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 57 (2):194-217.
    ABSTRACT The growing capabilities of large language models (LLMs) pose important questions for rhetorical theory and pedagogy. This article offers an overview of how LLMs like GPT work and a consideration of whether they should be considered rhetorical agents. To answer this question, the article considers structural and argumentative similarities in classical theorizations of rhetoric and the philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars. GPT’s particular method of encoding statistical patterns in language gives it some rudimentary semantics and reliably generates acceptable natural language (...)
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    Higher Education: Mobility, Movement, and Risk.Michael Bernard-Donals - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 57 (1):112-120.
    ABSTRACT With higher education in a state of flux, it’s time to more clearly understand what flux—mobility—means for the work of faculty at colleges and universities. With threats to shared governance, tenure, and academic freedom representing one sort of change, what would it mean for faculty to lean into the vulnerability that they are experiencing? Mobility has consequences: one of them is the risk of harm; another is the potential to destabilize concepts and entities. This article is an argument for (...)
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    Moving in the Manner of the Adverb.Marianne Constable - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 57 (1):93-102.
    ABSTRACT Learning to move slowly and attentively offers alternatives to how a fast-paced world induces us to act. The Feldenkrais Method’s® awareness-through-movement (ATM)® lessons encourage students to notice what they actually do and how, rather than cathecting on what they should accomplish and how well. Within the constraint of a lesson, one shifts focus from “movement” as noun to “moving” as verb. Students learn that options about how to move—slowly, quickly, lightly, jerkily, smoothly, delicately, precisely, roughly, loosely, energetically, lazily, and (...)
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    Phantasms of Fixity and a Gesture Toward Survival.Diane Davis - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 57 (1):121-130.
    ABSTRACT This article addresses the ethico-political implications of “living together” as the performative articulations of a generative movement (a running morphogenesis) that rests on nothing and to which there is no outside. It argues that any social, political, or intellectual movement that does not avow this différantial movement that comprehends it—and so that does not contest phantasms of purity and presence enough to guard, in Édouard Glissant’s terms, the singularity of “the Diverse”—forecloses, in advance, any future to come and therefore (...)
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    Editor’s Introduction: The State of Movement—or, Unassuming Theory.Erik Doxtader - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 57 (1):54-61.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Editor’s Introduction: The State of Movement—or, Unassuming TheoryErik DoxtaderMotion [kinēsin], then, is both the same and not the same; we must admit that without boggling at it.—Xenos (the stranger), Plato’s SophistThe only answer is that we trace a path.—Walter Benjamin, “The Metaphysics of Youth”Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?—Lisa and Bart (from the backseat)The state of movement is a question—of movement, in theory.What (...)
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    (14 other versions)Books of Interest.Michael Kennedy - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 57 (1):131-137.
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    The Resonance of Resonance.Mari Lee Mifsud - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 57 (1):81-92.
    ABSTRACT This article explores a state of movement in the humanities into nonhuman entanglements. A key term, “resonance,” emerges in this movement. Predominating scholarship orients resonance as a flourishing. In this article, accounts of the destructiveness of mechanical resonance signal a telling lacuna in humanities scholarship, one this article works to remove.
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    Figuring the Topos: Finding Common Ground in Cognitive Environments.Michael Joseph Regier - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 57 (1):30-53.
    ABSTRACT Effective communication relies on the use of rhetorical devices and strategies to make ideas present in the minds of an audience. By employing the concept of cognitive environments, we can use the visual analogy of making an idea “present” to its fullest effect, empowering our rhetorical skills and helping influence audience reception. In this article, the author argues that while cognitive environments do indeed provide a significant and important conceptual tool for understanding and anticipating an audience’s experiences, beliefs, and (...)
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    The Unachieved Momentum of Liberation: The French Résistance.Philippe-Joseph Salazar - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 57 (1):71-80.
    ABSTRACT Taking the example of the French Résistance and by summoning up the twin rhetorical concepts of kinesis and energeia, this article establishes the long reach of a national liberation trajectory, of which the Résistance was a key moment in its attempt to free the country and to move ahead with the project and promise of an ideal republic.
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    The Rhetorical Methodology of Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca’s Theory of Argumentation.Blake D. Scott - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 57 (1):1-29.
    ABSTRACT Despite Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca’s well-known influence on argumentation studies, it is striking that their theory of argumentation no longer stands out as a living project in the field. On the one hand, critics argue that their theory is inherently relativistic and therefore incapable of aiding argument evaluation. On the other hand, critics argue that, even as a descriptive theory, it fails to sufficiently justify its own systematic ambitions. This article addresses these dual concerns by returning to one of the (...)
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    Logos in the Flux of Life.Christopher W. Tindale - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 57 (1):103-111.
    ABSTRACT Since at least the work of Plato, the Western philosophical tradition has observed an ambition to detect fixed truths in the swirling movements of discourse. Related to this is the tension at the heart of our understandings of “argument,” a tension between a set of fixed propositions abstracted from the dynamic of human exchanges, and those exchanges themselves, alive with the uncertainties of experience. This article explores this tension with a view to recovering a sense of “argument” that stays (...)
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    The Discovery of the Idea of Movement.Donald Phillip Verene - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 57 (1):62-70.
    ABSTRACT That movement is associated with things both human and divine is as old as human experience. How does movement come to be formed as an idea, as an object of thought? For the answer we may turn to Aristotle’s De caelo, to Nicolas Oresme’s first graphic representation of movement in On Intensities, to Descartes’s essay on analytic geometry appended to his Discours de la méthode, and to Leibniz’s Monadologie as well as to Vico’s Scienza nuova and Hegel’s Phänomenologie des (...)
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    (1 other version)Figures of Entanglement: Diffractive Readings of Barad, New Materialism, and Rhetorical Theory and Criticism ed. by Christopher N. Gamble and Joshua S. Hanan (review). [REVIEW]Savannah Greer Downing - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 56 (3):395-402.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Figures of Entanglement: Diffractive Readings of Barad, New Materialism, and Rhetorical Theory and Criticism ed. by Christopher N. Gamble and Joshua S. HananSavannah Greer DowningFigures of Entanglement: Diffractive Readings of Barad, New Materialism, and Rhetorical Theory and Criticism. Edited by Christopher N. Gamble and Joshua S. Hanan. Routledge, 2021. xvi + 122 pp. $168 (hardcover), $47.16 (electronic book). ISBN: 9780367903794.Rhetorical scholars have turned to various new materialist frameworks (...)
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    (1 other version)Scale Theory: A Nondisciplinary Inquiry by Joshua DiCaglio (review).S. Scott Graham - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 56 (3):388-394.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Scale Theory: A Nondisciplinary Inquiry by Joshua DiCaglioS. Scott GrahamScale Theory: A Nondisciplinary Inquiry. By Joshua DiCaglio. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 349 pp. Paperback: $30.00. ISBN: 978-1-5179-1207-9.Scale Theory embodies its title in every possible way. It offers both a deep dive into and a 10,000-foot view of scale, scalar thinking, and the role of scale in scientific inquiry. The subtitle, A Nondisciplinary Inquiry, is no less (...)
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    (1 other version)Kairos, The Sire of Beauty.SeungJung Kim - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 56 (3):274-286.
    Despite the common understanding of _kairos_ as a temporal concept, it also harbors a spatial notion that holds particular significance in relation to Greek visual arts. The inquiry into its primary role in the formation of aesthetic beauty requires a phenomenological reading of the Lysippan personification of the concept, as it resonates with its counterparts in the fields of philosophy, rhetoric, and medicine. Using Andrew Stewart's suggestion as a starting point—that the Lysippan Kairos may serve as the artist's manifesto, consciously (...)
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    (1 other version)Enlightenment Rhetoric Reconsidered: Hume's Discursive Transcendence in "Of Eloquence".Alexander W. Morales - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 56 (3):242-266.
    The phrase "Enlightenment rhetoric" typically denotes discourses bent on rejecting classical oratorical styles in favor of purportedly scientific ones. Likewise, scholars often associate Enlightenment rhetorical styles with the scientific epistemologies that emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This article reconsiders Enlightenment rhetoric by analyzing David Hume's 1742 essay "Of Eloquence." More specifically, the article argues that the Scottish Enlightenment context necessitated a rhetoric that compensated for the discursive limitations of new scientific worldviews. In so doing, the article argues that (...)
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    (1 other version)Guest Editor's Introduction: A Moment for Kairos.Tina Skouen - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 56 (3):267-273.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Guest Editor's Introduction:A Moment for KairosTina SkouenHow does one describe a crucial moment, a moment that calls for action? What kinds of time are opened, disclosed, or foreclosed in such moments? This section explores a concept that has a long history in rhetoric and philosophy, but which is urgently called for now, in a time that many think of as critical, catastrophic, or even apocalyptic. Changes in the economy, (...)
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    (1 other version)Kairos in Isocrates.Robert Sullivan - 2024 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 56 (3):303-319.
    This article describes the conceptualizations of the term _kairos_, generally taken to mean "the opportune moment," by Isocrates. Though Isocrates was instrumental in developing _kairos_ as a "quasi-technical" concept within the rhetorical art, his use of the word was highly nuanced and could be applied in one of three poles of meaning: (1) "circumstances"; (2) notions of the "appropriate"; and (3) "opportunity," an orientation of elements within a particular moment that either supplies or shuts off a path toward a strategic (...)
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