... Friedman Shamma Babylonian Talmud bBM76ab Halivni David W anonymity of redactors legal debate thinking subject and Maimonides rationality Maimonides storytelling thinking subject and Talmud the addressee Talmud eternity and Talmudic process persons in memory being there persuasion rhetoric...

...This chapter looks at the lecture course Heidegger delivered on Aristotle's Rhetoric in the summer of 1924, Basic Concepts of Aristotelian Philosophy(G 18). It shows first how Heidegger is interested in the everyday language of the Greeks. He...

... as a Jew. By charting Marx's rhetoric, his use of such Jewish-associated morphemes as “Lump-” (rag, rogue) and “Verkehr-” (intercourse, inverted [verkehrt-]), this chapter analyzes how they may have provided the means by which he not only rendered...

...In Muiopotmos, Spenser's specific interest in The Nun's Priest's Tale lies somewhere between sustained allusion and incidental reminiscence. Just what had been said in the The Nun's Priest's Tale that the real hero of the poem is rhetoric, yet...

...The political battles being waged over recognition of the Rajasthani language, for example, rely on the same polarizing rhetoric perhaps familiar from other places and times. Part of the logic of the nation-state seized on (quite shrewdly) by the RLF is that power legitimizes certain sectarian...

... appropriation of Kierkegaard as a unique resource for contemporary theology. Barth Karl equivocality aesthetic religious Either Or Nygren Anders polyphany of Kierkegaard's rhetoric reception history of Kierkegaard rhetoric of Bible theology Kierkegaard as theologian Agape and Eros Nygren agape eros...

... subjectivity as an anarchic being affected by performing its own being disturbed as text. By offering a rhetorical reading of Levinas's book that traces how its language acts out the emergence of subjectivity, this chapter sheds light on a revolutionary notion of subjectivity implicit in Kant's thinking, which...

...This chapter argues, based on a close reading of Plato's Gorgias, that ontology invented rhetoric in order to domesticate time in discourse. Through rhetoric time is modeled as and reduced to space: a discourse is primarily an organism that unfolds, and it is articulated. From...

... suspicion of it, and its constant association in his work with rhetoric and oratory. A reading of Hobbes’s language theory in light of Aristotle’s distinction between phonè and logos shows how this rhetorical dimension of language is in fact irreducible (and indeed...

... the many pitfalls that surround it. The strategic calculation that goes into the rhetorical management of the sublime suggests that it is something other than absolutely individual, unmediated expression, and that it is closely aligned with the shaded complexities of the middle, rather than the stark...

... spirituality resonates more closely with the ideals of humanist spirituality born in Italy during the Renaissance. That resonance is reflected in the Ignatian commitment to humanist education rooted in rhetoric, the Ignatian appreciation for the Incarnation as restoring humanity to a dignity even greater than...

... existence for themselves amid culturally coded racist rhetoric and practices, it constructs a concept of sacred humanity and grounds it in existing hagiographic and iconic African American writings. The first part of the book argues for a concept of sacred humanity that is supported by the best available...

...Scatter 1 posits a politics of politics that is an irreducible part of politics itself. It is argued that this dimension of politics, usually associated with rhetoric and sophistry, is, like it or not, part of politics from the start, and that those who denounce...

.... The deepest and only adequate explanation therefore explains the thing as it is even before it has been explained. This chapter presents an overview of the structure and rhetoric of Plato's dialogues and examines his concept of well-being and justice. explanation letting be Plato and advantages...

...This chapter examines the rhetoric and poetics of Greek philosopher Aristotle. Aristotle seems unaware of the importance of the theory of ratios and proportions, which made possible a theory of infinite magnitudes. Though he understood time as the measure of motion and so as a quantity, he did...

... in the playhouse. If grandeur of rhetoric is something we associate with Renaissance humanism just as excellence of acting we associate with the charms of Shakespearean stage, what if we assume that woodenness is not a failure but a revelatory occasion? Woodenness reveals not only the constituent elements...

... Euphues Lyly Lyly John Martyr Peter Troilus and Cressida Shakespeare Taylor John Monsarrat Gilles fire Plutarch citizenship emotion figures of speech group psychology heart Julius Caesar rhetoric Shakespeare stone Where do you expect to find the hearts of flint that shall sympathize...

...The third general idea basic to Plato concerns the nature of a philosophical rhetoric. All the ways of maintaining descriptive truth through interventive truth have to do with the presentation of truth or knowledge, including its presentation to oneself. Now, the presentation of truth involves...

...The Romantic era sees the codification of digital rhetoric that lines up into its normative figures. Chopin is an exceptional figure who pays attention to the singularity of each finger. Chopin Fétis fingering rhetoric From a genetic point of view attentive to the becoming...

... Socrates wants him to. By the end of the dialogue, Phaedrus is convinced, Harry pointed out, but he is convinced by rhetoric, not by dialectic. At the deepest level, Socrates has failed. Harry was a kind of Brechtian teacher at Yale, avoiding the grand rhetorical gesture in favor of the interpretative...