The ethos of rhetoric /
edited by Michael J. Hyde ; foreword by Calvin O. Schrag.
- xxviii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Studies in rhetoric/communication .
- Studies in rhetoric/communication. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : rhetorically, we dwell / Ethos dwells pervasively : a hermeneutic reading of Aristotle on credibility / The Ethos of invention : the dialogue of ethics and aesthetics in Kenneth Burke and Mikhail Bakhtin / Truth as metaphor : imaginative vision and the ethos of rhetoric / The Ethos of rhetorical criticism : enlarging the dwelling place of critical praxis / Sweating the little things in Sidney Lumet's 12 angry men / Special delivery : rhetoric, letter writing, and the question of beauty / The Ethos of a Black aesthetic : an exploration of Larry Neal's visions of a liberated future / Religious rhetoric and the ethos of democracy : a case study of the 2000 presidential campaign / George W. Bush discovers rhetoric : September 20, 2001, and the U.S. response to terrorism / The Rushmore effect : Ethos and national collective identity / Expertise and agency : transformations of Ethos in human-computer interaction / Michael J. Hyde -- Craig R. Smith -- Margaret D. Zulick -- Robert Wade Kenny -- Barbara Warnick -- Walter Jost -- John Poulakos -- Eric King Watts -- Martin J. Medhurst -- David Zarefsky -- Carole Blair and Neil Michel -- Carolyn R. Miller.
"In The Ethos of Rhetoric, fourteen noted rhetorical theorists and critics answer a summons to return ethics from abstraction to the particular. They discuss and explore a meaning of ethos that predates its more familiar translation as "moral character" and "ethics." Attentive to this more primordial meaning of the term, the contributors understand the phrase "the ethos of rhetoric" to relate to the way discourse is used to transform space and time into "dwelling places" where people can deliberate about and collectively understand some matter of interest. Such dwelling places define the grounds, abodes, and habitats where a person's ethics and moral character take form and develop. Together the contributors define ethical discourse and describe what its practice looks like in particular communities." "Among the phenomena these contributors examine are the rhetoric of a Black Arts movement leader, the 2000 presidential campaign, President George W. Bush's response to the September 11 terrorist attack, and the cold war computer culture."--BOOK JACKET.