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The deep ecology of rhetoric in Mencius and Aristotle : a somatic guide / Douglas Robinson.
Van Pelt Library B128.M324 R63 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robinson, Douglas, 1954- author.
- Series:
- SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mencius--Criticism and interpretation.
- Aristotle--Criticism and interpretation.
- Aristotle.
- Mencius.
- Rhetoric, Ancient.
- Persuasion (Rhetoric)--History--To 1500.
- Persuasion (Rhetoric).
- History.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 325 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- Mencius (385 303/302 BCE) and Aristotle (384 322 BCE) were contemporaries, but are often understood to represent opposite ends of the philosophical spectrum. Mencius is associated with the ecological, emergent, flowing, and connected; Artistotle with the rational, static, abstract, and binary. Douglas Robinson argues that in their conceptions of rhetoric, at least, Mencius and Aristotle are much more similar than different: both are powerfully socio-ecological, espousing and exploring collectivist thinking about the circulation of energy and social value through groups. The agent performing the actions of pistis, "persuading-and-being-persuaded," in Aristotle and zhi, "governing-and-being-governed," in Mencius is, Robinson demonstrates, not so much the rhetor as an individual as it is the whole group. Robinson tracks this collectivistic thinking through a series of comparative considerations using a theory that draws impetus from Arne Naess's "ecosophical" deep ecology and from work on rhetoric powered by affective ecologies, but with details of the theory drawn equally from Mencius and Aristotle. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Mencius and Aristotle as "Deep-Ecological" Theorists of Rhetoric
- The Group Subject of Persuasion
- Energy Channeled Through Body Language
- The Circulation of Social Value
- Conclusion: Aristotle and Mencius on Ecosis.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781438461076
- 1438461070
- OCLC:
- 929585327
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