Speaking of Evil : Rhetoric and the Responsibility to and for Language
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Rhetoric, Race, and Religion
ISBN-10
1498578438
ISBN-13
9781498578431
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint
Lexington Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 15th, 2018
Print length
114 Pages
Weight
354 grams
Dimensions
23.20 x 15.90 x 1.40 cms
Product Classification:
Semantics, discourse analysis, etcCommunication studies
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This book analyzes ancient rhetoricians, Nazi Germany critics, and public intellectuals addressing 9/11 to show how renaming evil is a key response to the evil in language. It claims that rhetoric has always been a response to evil and suggests ways in which we can better take responsibility for our words.
Rhetoric and the Responsibility to and for Language: Speaking of Evil relocates the “problem of evil”— the question of why God would allow for the existence of evil—and surveys it as a rhetorical problem. It raises this question: if we speak evil, how shall we speak of evil? When we communicate, we are naming, and evil as the corruption of language plays a central role in that naming. Evil freezes our words, convinces us we have the sole right to their definitions, and generally stifles the dynamic gift of language. By looking at how people in different eras and situations have named evil, this book suggests how we can better take responsibility for our words and why we owe a responsibility to language as our ethical stance toward evil.
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