Many factors contribute to the shaping of human action, but rhetoric, we argue, is the decisive factor in the emergence of cultural diversity past and present. Several scholars have criticized the notion of “culture” as inviting a particular form of reification and implying a Procrustean vision of human existence. For this reason, they even began to write against culture or urged abandonment of the concept altogether.Yet, it seems to us that a more productive way would be to rethink the concept and locate culture in the domain where it ultimately be-longs—that is, rhetoric.
Author(s): Ivo Strecker, Stephen Tyler (eds), Christian Meyer, Peter Oesterreich, Daniel M. Gross, Vincenzo Cannada Bartoli, Boris Wiseman, Anthony Paul, Alan Rumsey, Philippe-Joseph Salazar, James W. Fernandez, Michael Herzfeld, Pierre Maranda, Paul Friedrich, Robert Hariman
Publisher: Berghahn
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 250
1. The Rhetoric Culture Project 21
Stephen Tyler and Ivo Strecker
2. Precursors of Rhetoric Culture Theory 31
Christian Meyer
3. Homo Rhetoricus 49
Peter Oesterreich
4. Listening Culture 59
Daniel M. Gross
5. Practice of Rhetoric, Rhetoric of Practice 74
Vincenzo Cannada Bartoli
6. Chiastic Thought and Culture: A Reading of Claude Lévi-Strauss 85
Boris Wiseman
7. When Fair Is Foul and Foul Is Fair: Lessons from Macbeth 104
Anthony Paul
8. Rhetoric,Truth,and the Work of Trope 117
Alan Rumsey
9. Figuration, a Common Ground of Rhetoric and Anthropology 150
Philippe-Joseph Salazar
10. Tropical Foundations and Foundational Tropes of Culture 166
James W. Fernandez
11. Convictions: Embodied Rhetorics of Earnest Belief 182
Michael Herzfeld
12. An Epistemological Query 207
Pierre Maranda
13. Beyond the Unsaid:Transcending Language through Language 211
Paul Friedrich
14. Future Imperfect: Imagining Rhetoric Culture 221
Robert Hariman
