Responding to the Sacred: An Inquiry into the Limits of Rhetoric by Michael Bern

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Responding to the Sacred by Michael Bernard-Donals, Kyle Jensen A collection of essays examining the extent to which rhetorics relation to the sacred is one of ineffability and how our response to the sacred integrates the divine (or the altogether other) into the human order. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 of 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 Hobbess and Walter Benjamins accounts of sacred texts, the uncanny algorithms of Big Data, and Hélène Cixouss 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.In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Michelle Ballif, Jean Bessette, Trey Conner, Richard Doyle, David Frank, Daniel M. Gross, Kevin Hamilton, Cynthia Haynes, Steven Mailloux, James R. Martel, Jodie Nicotra, Ned OGorman, and Brooke Rollins. Author Biography Michael Bernard-Donals is Chaim Perelman Professor of Rhetoric and Culture at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Focusing mainly on the relation between rhetoric and ethics, he has authored or edited ten books in the field.Kyle Jensen is Professor of English at Arizona State University and the author of Reimagining Process: Online Writing Archives and the Future of Writing Studies. Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Taking Rhetoric to Its Limits; or, How to Respond to a Sacred Call Michael Bernard-Donals and Kyle Jensen Part 1: Sacred Encounters Sacred Passages, Rhetorical Passwords Cynthia Haynes Engaging a Rhetorical God: Developing the Capacities of Mercy and Justice David Frank Political Theologies of Sacred Rhetoric Steven Mailloux How to Undo Truths with Words: Reading Texts Both Sacred and Profane in Hobbes and Benjamin James R. Martel Chanting the Supreme Word of Information: "Sacred?! Redundant?!" Richard Doyle and Trey Conner Part 2: Sacred Practices Hacking the Sacred (or Not): Rhetorical Attunements for Ecodelic Imbrication Jodie Nicotra Divining Rhetorics Future Michelle Ballif Where Is the Nuclear Sovereign? Ned OGorman with Kevin Hamilton From the Cathedral to the Casino: The Wager as a Response to the Sacred Brooke Rollins Rightness in Retrospect: Stonewall and the Sacred Call of Kairos Jean Bessette Historiography and the Limits of (Sacred) Rhetoric Daniel M. Gross List of Contributors Index Review "Responding to the Sacred provides a capacious and prismatic view of communicating that which is not fully communicable, and in doing so, it ventures to rhetorics very edges—and beyond."—Debra Hawhee, author of Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw: Animals, Language, Sensation"Each chapter of the book stands out on its own in delving deep into specific themes, while at the same time speaking to the other chapters and the introduction in a holistic manner. Here Bernard-Donals and Jensens editorial finesse shows—they weave one narrative while pausing at proper intervals to make space for variegated portals."—Ankana Das Reading Religion Long Description 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 Hobbess and Walter Benjamins accounts of sacred texts, the uncanny algorithms of Big Data, and Helene Cixouss 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. Review Text "Responding to the Sacred provides a capacious and prismatic view of communicating that which is not fully communicable, and in doing so, it ventures to rhetorics very edges-and beyond." -Debra Hawhee, author of Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw: Animals, Language, Sensation "Each chapter of the book stands out on its own in delving deep into specific themes, while at the same time speaking to the other chapters and the introduction in a holistic manner. Here Bernard-Donals and Jensens editorial finesse shows-they weave one narrative while pausing at proper intervals to make space for variegated portals." -Ankana Das, Reading Religion Review Quote " Responding to the Sacred provides a capacious and prismatic view of communicating that which is not fully communicable, and in doing so, it ventures to rhetorics very edges--and beyond." --Debra Hawhee, author of Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw: Animals, Language, Sensation Details ISBN0271089563 Short Title Responding to the Sacred Pages 286 Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 0271089563 ISBN-13 9780271089560 Format Paperback Subtitle An Inquiry into the Limits of Rhetoric DEWEY 210 Author Kyle Jensen Imprint Pennsylvania State University Press Place of Publication University Park Country of Publication United States NZ Release Date 2022-11-15 US Release Date 2022-11-15 UK Release Date 2022-11-15 Illustrations 8 Halftones, black and white Illustrator Ethan Young Birth 1927 Affiliation University of Queensland Position Senior Lecturer Qualifications J.D. 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