Histories of Ethos: World Perspectives on Rhetoric

• Other Authors: Baumlin, James S. (Editor), Meyer, Craig A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Philosophy; ethos; selfhood; identity; authenticity; authority; persona; positionality; postmodernism; haunt; iatrology; trust; storytelling; Archer; Aristotle; Bourdieu; Corder; Foucault; Geertz; Giddens; Gusdorf; Heidegger; African American literature; slave narratives; Phillis Wheatley; Martin Luther King; Malcolm X; W.E.B. Du Bois; Booker T. Washington; Oglala Lakota; wound; ecology; ecological; Wounded Knee; American Indian; cultural wound; hip hop; black aesthetics; New York; flow; layering; rupture; productive consumption; hype; entrepreneurship; politics; counter-knowledge; class; social class; working class; habitus; social capital; GLBT/LGBTQ; queer; normativity; homonormativity; polemic; futurity; undecidability; re/disorientation; legitimacy; rhetorical agency; outness; Islamic ethos; nonwestern rhetorics; Islamophobia; The Qur'an; Sunnah; Ijtihad; Islamic State; Muslim community (Ummah); Caliphate; disability; invention; rehabilitation; accessibility; inclusion; intersectionality; cross-disability identity; actant; cyborg; COVID-19; deep ecology; pandemic; posthumanism; skeptron; technoculture; Braidotti; Haraway; Latour; African slave trade; trauma; visual rhetorics; wolof language; Dakar; Door of No Return; Gorée Island; House of Slaves; Senegal; contemporary ethos; Ghana; dialogic; heteroglossia; postmodern discourses; proverbs; sexual identity; sexual presentation; conservative values; tradition; Chinese ethos; rhetoric; early Chinese rhetoric; Heaven; cultural heritage
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The essays in this collection aim to waken contemporary discussions of ethos(and of rhetoric generally) from their Western, classical-Aristotelian slumbers.Western rhetoric was never univocal in its theory or practice of ethos: the essaysin this collection provide proof of this. The contributors aim...