9780271089577-0271089571-Responding to the Sacred: An Inquiry into the Limits of Rhetoric

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

ISBN-13: 9780271089577
ISBN-10: 0271089571
Edition: 1
Author: Kyle Jensen, Michael Bernard-Donals
Publication date: 2021
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Format: Hardcover 286 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780271089577
ISBN-10: 0271089571
Edition: 1
Author: Kyle Jensen, Michael Bernard-Donals
Publication date: 2021
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Format: Hardcover 286 pages

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Responding to the Sacred: An Inquiry into the Limits of Rhetoric (ISBN-13: 9780271089577 and ISBN-10: 0271089571), written by authors Kyle Jensen, Michael Bernard-Donals, was published by Penn State University Press in 2021. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Communication (Words, Language & Grammar , Rhetoric, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Logic & Language, Philosophy, Religious, Communication & Media Studies, Social Sciences) books. You can easily purchase or rent Responding to the Sacred: An Inquiry into the Limits of Rhetoric (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Communication books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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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 Hobbes's and Walter Benjamin's accounts of sacred texts, the uncanny algorithms of Big Data, and Hélène Cixous's 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.

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