The Reasonable and the Sensible:

Philosophy & Rhetoric Apr 2013

Don J. Kraemer California State Polytechnic University

Abstract

ABSTRACTJoining the New Rhetoric project's conversation about argumentation as justice, this article aims to add an expanded version of the psychological to the just resources of argumentation. After examining how Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca's The New Rhetoric justifies attention to—yet ultimately swerves from—contingencies of psycho-physical sensation, I turn to Burke's highly elaborated concept of identification, which adds to the New Rhetoric project by articulating the relations of physiological sensation, attitude and emotion, and persuasion. Linking ethics and form, identification provides a means by which one may grow increasingly aware of the sensation-driven defensiveness that can undermine dialogic exchange. After making this case that Burke's rhetoric can help develop what is not in the New Rhetoric project but should be—the resource of constitutive, affective identification—I end with what should be in Burke but is not—a universality that a “we” of substantially different constitutions would agree on.

Journal: Philosophy & Rhetoric
Published: 2013-04-01
DOI: 10.5325/philrhet.46.2.0207
Open Access: Closed
Topics: argument affect and writing

Citation Context

Cited by in this index (1)

Kraemer (2016)

Reasonable and Rational: Renewed Loci for Rhetorical Justice

Philosophy & Rhetoric

Cites in this index (1)

Crosswhite (1997)

The Rhetoric of Reason: Writing and the Attractions of Argument

College Composition and Communication

Also cites 11 works outside this index ↓

Burke, Kenneth. 1966. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. Berkeley: Universi…

↗
Burke, Kenneth. 1969a. A Grammar of Motives. Berkeley: University of California Press.

↗
Burke, Kenneth. 1969b. A Rhetoric of Motives. Berkeley: University of California Press.

↗
Burke, Kenneth. 1973a. The Philosophy of Literary Form: Studies in Symbolic Action. 3rd ed. Berkeley: Univers…

↗
Burke, Kenneth. 1978a. “Methodological Repression and/or Strategies of Containment.” Critical Inquiry 5 (2): …

↗
Burke, Kenneth. 1978b. “(Nonsymbolic) Motion/(Symbolic) Action.” Critical Inquiry 4 (4): 809–38.

↗
Burke, Kenneth. 2006. “On Persuasion, Identification, and Dialectical Symmetry.” Ed. James Zappen. Philosophy…

↗
Cohen, G. A. 2004. “Expensive Taste Rides Again.” In Dworkin and His Critics (with Replies by Dworkin), ed. J…

↗
Crosswhite, James. 2010. “Universalities.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 43 (4): 430–48.

↗
Dworkin, Ronald. 2004. “Ronald Dworkin Replies.” In Dworkin and His Critics (with Replies by Dworkin), ed. Ju…

↗
Tindale, Christopher. 2004. Rhetorical Argumentation: Principles of Theory and Practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

↗

CrossRef global citation count: 3 View in citation network →