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Zen in the Art of Rhetoric: An Inquiry into Coherence

Zen in the Art of Rhetoric: An Inquiry into Coherence

McPhail, Mark

Paperback

Series: Suny Communication Studies

PhilosophyGeneral Reference

ISBN10: 0791428044
ISBN13: 9780791428047
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Nov 21 1995
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.04
Language: English

Explores relationships between classical and contemporary approaches to rhetoric and their connection to the underlying assumptions at work in Zen Buddhism.

Zen in the Art of Rhetoric interrogates the role of dualistic thought in human communication and culture, and offers new insights into the similarities and differences that mark Eastern and Western conceptualizations of language. Beginning with a reconsideration of the relationship between Zen Buddhism and rhetoric, the book progresses through a series of essays that examines the epistemological assumptions shared by pre-classical and postmodern rhetorics and Buddhist metaphysics, suggesting that the conception of rhetoric articulated by the Greek Sophists parallels the questioning of duality posed by Zenists as well as the critique of negation advanced by some postmodern theorists.

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