The deep ecology of rhetoric in Mencius and Aristotle : a somatic guide / Douglas Robinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robinson, Douglas, 1954- author.

Series:

SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.

SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mencius--Criticism and interpretation.

Mencius.

Aristotle--Criticism and interpretation.

Aristotle.

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Persuasion (Rhetoric)--History--To 1500.

Persuasion (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Scope of the Study; Acknowledgments; A Note on Romanization Conventions; 1 Mencius and Aristotle as "Deep-Ecological" Theorists of Rhetoric; 1.1 Rhetoric and Deep Ecology; 1.2 Somatics; 1.3 Mencius as a Theorist of Rhetoric; 1.4 The "Historical" Mencius and the "Literary" Mencius; 1.5 Sino-Hellenism; 1.6 The Structure of the Book; 2 The Group Subject of Persuasion; 2.0 Introduction; 2.1 Aristotle: The Headaches pistis Gives Translators; 2.2 Burke on Aristotle: The Group Mind as Identification; 2.3 Mencius: zhì 治 "Govern" as Reciprocal

4.14 Aristotle on Seeming True: ta dokounta, ta eikota, and to pithanon4.15 Aristotle: Doxicosis; 5 Conclusion Aristotle and Mencius on Ecosis; Notes; Glossary; References; Index; Name and Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438461083

1438461089