David Jasper

Rhetoric, Power, and Community

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Rhetoric has returned vigorously to the agenda of a number of academic disciplines. Aristotle defended the art of rhetoric, while Plato was suspicious of its manipulative power to persuade. This study examines rhetoric in the context of different kinds of religious texts, from sacred scripture, to liturgy, to contemporary and postmodern writing and religion. How does the believing community negotiate rhetorical power-games which may be exercised upon it, and do we have to be bold to see the ironies and the joke which may be played upon us in the name of the truth of religion? This book is an exercise in rhetoric which is itself suspicious of the rhetorical arts. Its concerns are profoundly theological, though perhaps offensive to theology as it is often practiced in the church and the academy. It offers no conclusion, but perhaps a way of exploring and of looking afresh.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 242g
• ISBN-13: 9781606088319
• ISBN-10: 1606088319
• Artikelnr.: 27315597

Autorenporträt

David Jasper is Emeritus Professor at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and was for many years Changjiang Chair Professor at Renmin University of China, Beijing. Ou Guang-an is Professor of English Literature and Comparative Literature at the College of Foreign Languages, Shihezi University, China.