Alien Life and Human Purpose - A Rhetorical Examination Through History

Informationen zum Autor Joseph Packer is assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Dramatic Arts at Central Michigan University. Klappentext Alien Life and Human Purpose provides a rhetorical examination of the way major historical figures connect their arguments for the absence of alien life, or unity, to their philosophical, religious, and ethical agendas. Packer contends that unity had a complimentary mythic function and continues to shape modern social values. This work will be of interest to rhetoricians, philosophers, historians, and theologists. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One: Plato's Rhetorical Cosmology: The Unity of the World as Foundational MythChapter Two: The Dominance of the Unity Cosmology from Plato to GalileoChapter Three: William Whewell and Alfred Russel Wallace: Unity Cosmology in the Modern EraChapter Four: Quantum UnityChapter Five: Unity in the Twenty-first CenturyConclusion: Humanity as the Measure vs. the Unity of the WorldBibliography

Product details

• Authors: Packer, Joseph Packer, Packer Joseph
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2015
• EAN: 9781498513012
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-1301-2
• No. of pages: 262
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Communication Studies, Astronomy, space & time, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Astronomy, space and time, SCIENCE / Space Science / Astronomy, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, Alien Life;Plurality;Rhetoric