(Originally written January 11, 2007 in Book 12)
Article #3 - Rhetoric And Episteme: Writing About Art in the Wake of Post-Structuralism
By: Gérard Mermoz
Class Notes
Platonic Rhetoric - trying to influence the audience's souls towards truth
Georgian Rhetoric - using the magic of words
Aristotelian Rhetoric - the use of logos, pathos, and ethos in rhetoric
Isocratic Rhetoric - Using rhetoric to find knowledge and Kairos
Article #3
Rhetoric: "art of persuasive speaking or writing, language designed to persuade or impress (but perhaps insincere or exaggerated)" (498).
Mermoz uses 'rhetoric' as "various devices and processes through which meanings are constructed and communicated int he pursuit of 'truth-effects' - neither good nor bad in themselves, but instrumental in implementing 'truth-values'" (498).
Derrida, in critiquing Platonism, questions the reasons for the separation of philosophy (dialectic) and sophistic (rhetoric).
Richard Kearney: "We do not and cannot miraculously create meaning out of ourselves, we inherit meaning from others who have thought, spoken or written before us ... we recreate this meaning, according to our own projects and interpretations" (502).
Wow! I read the words, but the material flew, soaring miles above my head. It hurts.
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