Responding to the Sacred - An Inquiry into the Limits of Rhetoric

A collection of essays examining the extent to which rhetoric's 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.

About the author

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.

Summary

A collection of essays examining the extent to which rhetoric’s 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.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Bernard-Donals
• Assisted by: Michael Bernard-Donals (Editor), Michael (Nancy Hoefs Professor of English Bernard-Donals (Editor), Bernard-Donals Michael (Editor), Kyle Jensen (Editor), Kyle (Professor of English Jensen (Editor), Jensen Kyle (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.03.2021
• EAN: 9780271089577
• ISBN: 978-0-271-08957-7
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 567 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, RELIGION / Philosophy, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, Communication Studies, Philosophy of religion, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Islamic & Arabic philosophy, Rhetoric;Religion;Sacred;Ritual