Rhetoric & Public Affairs Mar 2021 OA PDF

Rhetoric for Earthly Coexistence: Imagining an Ecocentric Rhetoric

Joshua Trey Barnett Pennsylvania State University

Abstract

Abstract What obligations do scholars of rhetoric and public address have to understand, address, and sustain the conditions of earthly coexistence? Only if the field of rhetoric embraces a genuinely ecological notion of rhetoric, the author argues, and only if we collectively commit to addressing the ecological dimensions of our various objects of study, can we truly give back to the earth in ways that honor all that it has given, and continues to give, to us. Toward that end, this essay outlines several dimensions of an “ecocentric rhetoric.“

Journal
Rhetoric & Public Affairs
Published
2021-03-01
DOI
10.14321/rhetpublaffa.24.1-2.0365
Open Access
OA PDF Bronze
Topics
race and writing

Citation Context

Cited by in this index (1)

  1. Paliewicz (2023)
    Thinking Like a Copper Mine: An Ecological Approach to Corporate Ethos and Prosōpon
    Rhetoric Society Quarterly

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    Philosophy & Rhetoric
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