Ethics in Contact Rhetoric - Communication and the Dance of Bodies and Power

To counterbalance traditional communication ethics grounded in linguistic or symbolic rhetorical theories, Ethics in Contact Rhetoric de-centers discourse and begins with bodies and the art of dance to formulate an immediate bio-relational communication theory--contact rhetoric--that addresses the full physical and moral range of rhetorical force.

List of contents

Preface: On Co-writing More, Rhetorical Touch, and Dancing Temples of Hope
Introduction: On Feelings, Dance Terms, and Forming Rhetorical Critics
Chapter 1: Centering Contact, Dancing Attitudes: On King Midas' Touch and Defining Terms
Jon Radwan
Chapter 2: Contact Rhetoric: Bodies and Love in Deus Caritas Est
Jon Radwan
Chapter 3: Conquest and Rhetorical Force: Truth, Mutuality, and Just Dancing in Relational Gravity
Jon Radwan
Chapter 4: With or Without God: Dancing and the Apocalypse
Omar Swartz
Chapter 5: "I Am Prepared to Die:" Mandela's Rivonia Address and Sabotage as Rhetorical Contact
Jon Radwan, Dale Cyphert, and Ellen Gorsevski
Chapter 6: Choosing: The Violence of Iowa Nice or an Ethical Bar Fight
Dale Cyphert
Chapter 7: Interspecies Communication Ethics and Relational Force: From Repression to Restorative Ecological Justice
Ellen Gorsevski
Chapter 8: Terrorism, Direction Action, and Holding Prisoners: Rhetorical Dimensions of Violent Contact
Jon Radwan

About the author

Jon Radwan, Dale Cyphert, Ellen W. Gorsevski, Omar Swartz

Product details

• Authors: Dale Cyphert, Gorsevski Ellen W., Jon Radwan, Jon Radwan, Jon Cyphert Radwan, Swartz Omar
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.12.2024
• EAN: 9781666934731
• ISBN: 978-1-66693-473-1
• No. of pages: 356
• Series: Lexington Studies in Contemporary Rhetoric
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Classical & Ballet, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ballet, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Classical style