Philosophy and Rhetoric

ISSN: 0031-8213

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    Lockean Natural History and the Revivification of Post-Truth Objects.Piper W. Corp - 2023 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 56 (2):117-141.
    ABSTRACT Post-truth, understood as a turn from collective sense and judgment to nonpublic forms of epistemic justification, is a distinctly rhetorical problem. This article offers, in response, a theorization of knowledge making as the means by which affective and material impingements upon bodies become publicly legible and rhetorically available. For this, the author turns, perhaps unexpectedly, to John Locke. Locke’s works offer the foundations of an empirical theory of rhetoric that embraces the sensible realm not as a conduit to reality (...)
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    Revisiting Reverse Eikos: Dialectical Evaluation of a Rhetorical Argument.Henrike Jansen - 2023 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 56 (2):168-189.
    ABSTRACT Reverse eikos (plausibility) arguments are notorious for reversing a reason that supports an accusation into a reason that denies this accusation. This article offers new insights on their analysis and evaluation, by reconstructing a reverse eikos argument’s line of reasoning as an argumentative pattern. The pattern reveals that this type of argument centers not only on the arguer’s claim that by doing the act of which they have been accused, they would risk becoming the likely suspect, but also on (...)
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  3. Books of Interest.Michael Kennedy - 2023 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 56 (2):206-212.
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    Being-Moved: Rhetoric as the Art of Listening.Nathaniel A. Rivers - 2023 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 56 (2):190-198.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Being-Moved: Rhetoric as the Art of Listening by Daniel M. GrossNathaniel A. RiversBeing-Moved: Rhetoric as the Art of Listening. By Daniel M. Gross. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. 260 pp. Paper $34.95. ISBN: 9780520340466.September 29, 2008. Radiohead front man Thom Yorke sits frustrated at his piano. Live on stage. He is trying to start a song, but something is tripping him up. The song is “Videotape,” and (...)
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    Violent Inheritance: Sexuality, Land, and Energy in Making the North American West.Nathan Stormer - 2023 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 56 (2):199-205.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Violent Inheritance: Sexuality, Land, and Energy in Making the North American West by E. CramNathan StormerViolent Inheritance: Sexuality, Land, and Energy in Making the North American West. By E. Cram. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. 292 pp. Cloth $85.00, paper $34.95. ISBN: 0520379470.E. Cram’s Violent Inheritance is an exceptional work that presents a distinctive synthesis of queer, decolonial, and mixed-method scholarship. The goal of the book, Cram (...)
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    Michel Foucault’s Rhetorical Practice: The 1961 Preface to History and Madness.Michael Ure - 2023 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 56 (2):142-167.
    ABSTRACT This article examines Foucault as a rhetorician rather than as a historian of parrhesia and rhetoric. It explores what we can learn about his philosophy by examining it through the lens of his rhetorical practices. Focusing on his famous 1961 preface to History and Madness, it suggests that Foucault’s model of philosophy entails a rhetoric of conversion or transformation.
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    To Make a Scholar Black: A Constructive Analysis of the Discursive Orientation Toward Blackness.Amir Jaima - 2023 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 56 (1):76-91.
    ABSTRACT Africana scholars often address their texts to a reader who is implicitly white. This tendency, which this article characterizes as the “discursive orientation toward whiteness,” has the pernicious effect of limiting the range and rigor of scholars’ research questions and proposal. This analysis examines the other discursive “face,” following J. Saunders Redding’s observation from almost eighty years ago, which remains unnervingly insightful: “Negro [sic] writers have been obliged to have two faces... to satisfy two different (and opposed when not (...)
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    Pan-African Pandemonium: Identities, Histories, and Constellations.Bryan Mukandi - 2023 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 56 (1):33-50.
    ABSTRACT Fiston Mujila’s Tram 83 provides a helpful point of departure for this philosophical treatment of pan-African subjectivity. His meditations on music resonate with continental and diasporic accounts of the musicality of African social organization. This in turn provides an opening into a discussion around the tension between conceptions of African identity tied to heritage and continuity on one hand, and considerations of the rupture brought about by the Middle Passage and colonialism on the other. Drawing on African philosophy and (...)
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    After Philosophy, Black Thought: Sylvia Wynter and the Ends of Knowledge.Omedi Ochieng - 2023 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 56 (1):92-113.
    ABSTRACT This article invites critical inquiry into the rhetorical form of Sylvia Wynter’s thought. The author identifies the key to Wynter’s thought as charting a cartography that is intransigently committed to a vision of the intellectual imagination at its most ambitious while staying true to the grain and detail of the liminal, the lumpen, and the particular. The upshot is that Wynter wants to open up a space for the imagination and labor of Black thought, one that comes after and (...)
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    Guest Editor’s Introduction: The Time of Africana Philosophy.Omedi Ochieng - 2023 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 56 (1):1-7.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Guest Editor's Introduction:The Time of Africana PhilosophyOmedi OchiengAfricana philosophy is in the main a philosophy of the present. Many will demur and with good reason. In the first place, in worrying about the definition and animating energies of Africana philosophers, Africana philosophers have looked to the past to furnish answers to the former, and to the future to motivate its orientation to the latter. For Lucius Outlaw, for example, (...)
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    The Genres of Swahili Philosophy.Alena Rettová - 2023 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 56 (1):8-32.
    ABSTRACT This article maintains that African philosophy should consider those discourses that function as channels of important ideas in African cultures, without prejudice against their language and, especially, their genre. What are such philosophical discourses? This article starts from a case study, Swahili culture, and interrogates the communicative resources available to it to serve as vehicles of philosophical thought. The survey includes language itself, proverbs, musical performance (sung lyrics), metric and free-verse poetry, novelistic prose, theoretical writings, and translations. Based on (...)
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    Watery Hauntings: A Glossary for African Philosophy in a Different Key.Louise du Toit & Azille Coetzee - 2023 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 56 (1):51-75.
    ABSTRACT It is no secret that philosophy was historically established as the endeavor of white men and that this history continues to underpin and inform the workings of the institutionalized discipline in contemporary university spaces. The discipline’s inherent preoccupation with the universal rather than the particular, the abstract rather than the material, has rendered philosophy particularly obtuse for certain kinds of thinking, and oblivious to large currents of political and aesthetic reflection that have shaped contemporary intellectual engagement with our world. (...)
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    The Democratic Sublime: On Aesthetics and Popular Assembly by Jason Frank (review).Robert Hariman - 2023 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 55 (4):418-423.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:The Democratic Sublime: On Aesthetics and Popular Assembly by Jason FrankRobert HarimanThe Democratic Sublime: On Aesthetics and Popular Assembly. By Jason Frank. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. xvii + 255 pp. Paper $28.00. ISBN-10: 0190658169. ISBN-13: 9780190658168.Who knew that the twenty-first century might turn on a battle over the legitimacy of democracy? As norms of deliberation and legislative compromise erode, and as a global struggle between democratic (...)
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    The Erotic Madness of Writing in Plato's Phaedrus.Nathaniel Street - 2023 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 55 (4):386-410.
    Abstractabstract:Phaedrus performs an analogy between eros and writing that splits each term in two. The first orientation operates via a logic of ownership: lover of the beloved; writer/reader of text. The second orientation treats eros and writing as inventive activities that catalyze the self-overcoming of the lover and beloved—of the writer/reader and text. This orientation is heralded in Socrates's palinode, but it has been overlooked by accounts of Socrates's critique of writing. This article establishes the relationship between the beloved-as-reminder, established (...)
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