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Research paper thumbnail of Forgiving “La Dette Impensée”: Being Jewish and Reading Heidegger

SUNY Press eBooks, Sep 22, 2008

Research paper thumbnail of Heidegger's hermeneutics and the rhetoric of biblical theology

L'A. met en parallele les analyses de Heidegger sur le langage, «maison de l'etre», et le... more L'A. met en parallele les analyses de Heidegger sur le langage, «maison de l'etre», et le role preponderant dans la Bible de la Parole comme lien entre l'homme et Dieu

Research paper thumbnail of Being Jewish/reading Heidegger: an ontological encounter

... 5. The term "formally indicating rhetorical" is "elliptically cribbed" fr... more ... 5. The term "formally indicating rhetorical" is "elliptically cribbed" from Heidegger's discussion of "formally indicating the historical," in the 1920-21 course "Introduction to the Phenomenology of Religion." See Kisiel, The Genesis of Heidegger's "Being and Time," 164-65. ...

Research paper thumbnail of The relationship between rhetoric and hermeneutics reconsidered

Central States Speech Journal, 1983

... such a way that my words could convey any truth that anyone could grasp on such matters rathe... more ... such a way that my words could convey any truth that anyone could grasp on such matters rather than to set down one true meaning so clearly as to exclude all other meaning which not being false could not offend me."42 What a strange rhetorician Augustine makes of Moses! ...

Research paper thumbnail of Being Jewish/Reading Heidegger

Research paper thumbnail of 14 Hermes' Rhetorical Problem: The Dilemma of the Sacred in Philosophical Hermeneutics

Rhetoric and Hermeneutics in Our Time, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Being Jewish/Reading Heidegger

Heidegger Circle Proceedings, 2005

Research paper thumbnail of What Is Friendship? A Hermeneutical Quibble

Annals of the International Communication Association, 1989

Commentary on Rawlins 205 212 DISCOURSE AND RELATIONSHIPS philosophical subtext that I presumptuo... more Commentary on Rawlins 205 212 DISCOURSE AND RELATIONSHIPS philosophical subtext that I presumptuously think I uncovered in his more overt and also useful empirical discourse on friendship.

Research paper thumbnail of Perelman's universal audience: One perspective

Central States Speech Journal, 1976

This essay explicates Chaim Perelman's concept of the universal audience as a tool that can b... more This essay explicates Chaim Perelman's concept of the universal audience as a tool that can be used to establish the reasonableness of arguments in rhetorical discourse. The concept is applied to the process of invention where it serves as a “check” on the reasonableness of the arguments being constructed.

Research paper thumbnail of The Limits of Narrative: Truth Aspiring Discourse in the Bible

Rhetorica, 1992

raditionally, rabbis gained rhetorical power through the force of their interpretive performance.... more raditionally, rabbis gained rhetorical power through the force of their interpretive performance. The rabbis of the Talmud and those who followed them were not known for their great oratory. It was rather their hermeneutical skUl that marked them as worth listening to. Their "eloquence" was grounded in the strength of their interpretations of the legal and narrative portions of the Torah. FoUowing this heuristic eue, we might speculate as to whether the Bible itself also achieves some measure of its eloquence through the acuity of its interpretive insights. That is, might not the rhetorical power of the Bible also Ue, at least in some part, in the force of its hermeneutical performance as displayed in the text? This relationship between rhetoric and hermeneutics, of course, is explidtly featured in philosophical discourse. We find a philosophical text compeUing in large part because we are im-

Research paper thumbnail of Aristotle's Rhetoric as Ontology: A Heideggerian Reading

Philosophy and Rhetoric, 1999

L'A. mesure les implications ontologiques de la «Rhetorique» d'Aristote reperees par Heid... more L'A. mesure les implications ontologiques de la «Rhetorique» d'Aristote reperees par Heidegger dans son cours du semestre d'hiver 1924 intitule «Les concepts fondamentaux de la philosophie d'Aristote». Soulevant la question philosophique par excellence, a savoir celle de la signification de l'etre, l'A. montre que Heidegger repere le statut de l'ontologie dans la situation hermeneutique concrete qui caracterise la phenomenologie de la parole quotidienne comme activite rheorique du Dasein. Examinant le lien que Heidegger etablit entre son concept de projection et sa conceptualisation de l'ontologie fondamentale d'Aristote dans «Etre et temps», l'A. conclut au passage d'une ontologie du voir et de l'interpretation a une phenomenologie de la parole au sein de la dynamique rhetorique qui apparait comme la condition a priori de l'existence

Research paper thumbnail of The Hermeneutics of Heidegger's Speech: A Rhetorical Phenomenology

Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 1998

Appliquant la formule heideggerienne le langage se montre d'abord en tant que notre facon de ... more Appliquant la formule heideggerienne le langage se montre d'abord en tant que notre facon de parler au propre style de Heidegger, l'A. souleve la question de savoir comment le langage se revele dans la facon de parler du philosophe. Localisant la recherche phenomenologique de Heidegger au sein de sa parole concrete, l'A. montre que la phenomenologie rhetorique que Heidegger developpe dans son exegese de Parmenide est incomplete au regard de l'appel de l'Etre, en ce sens qu'elle n'en fournit que des indications formelles au sein d'une definition du dire comme monstration

Research paper thumbnail of Patrick and Scult, "Rhetoric and Biblical Interpretation

The Jewish Quarterly Review, 1992

Research paper thumbnail of Patrick and Scult, "Rhetoric and Biblical Interpretation

The Jewish Quarterly Review, 1992

Research paper thumbnail of Rhetoric and Biblical Interpretation

... Seminary, Decatur, Georgia) Assistant General Editor: Danna Nolan Fewell (Perkins School of T... more ... Seminary, Decatur, Georgia) Assistant General Editor: Danna Nolan Fewell (Perkins School of Theology, Dallas, Texas) Consultant Editors: Elizabeth Struthers Malbon (Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, Virginia) James G. Williams ... Scult, Allen III. ...

Research paper thumbnail of A Note on the Range and Utility of the Universal Audience

Argumentation and Advocacy, 1985

Research paper thumbnail of Genesis and power: An analysis of the biblical story of creation

Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1986

This essay suggests that power be conceived as a dialectic of “authorship” and “authority.” Inter... more This essay suggests that power be conceived as a dialectic of “authorship” and “authority.” Interest in understanding the rhetorical power of sacred texts is blended with interest in explaining the cultural origins of Anglo‐American social order. Because it is inherently persuasive, and because it became the first principle of arguments for justifying hierarchy, the Biblical story of creation should be

Research paper thumbnail of Jewish Preaching 1200?1800: An Anthology: Jewish Preaching 1200-1800: An Anthology

Research paper thumbnail of RHETORIC AS ONTOLOGY: A READING OF HEIDEGGER'S 1924 LECTURES ON

Philosophy and Rhetoric, 1999

In B&T, Heidegger calls Aristotle's Rhetoric, "The first systematic hermeneutic of the everydayne... more In B&T, Heidegger calls Aristotle's Rhetoric, "The first systematic hermeneutic of the everydayness of Being with one another." Using Aristotle's definition of rhetoric in Book One of The Rhetoric, I show how this hermeneutic achieves ontological reach when filtered through persuasive speech using Aristotle's "method."

Research paper thumbnail of RHETORIC AS ONTOLOGY: A READING OF HEIDEGGER'S 1924 LECTURES ON

Being Jewish/Reading Heidegger: An Ontological Encounter, 2004

This essay picks up where Heidegger left off in his 1924 course on Aristotle's "Rhetoric." I put... more This essay picks up where Heidegger left off in his 1924 course on Aristotle's "Rhetoric." I put the 1924 course in conversation with Aristotle's "Rhetoric." The yield is an ontology based on Aristotle's definition of rhetoric as "an ability in each particular case to to see the available means of persuasion.

Research paper thumbnail of Forgiving “La Dette Impensée”: Being Jewish and Reading Heidegger

SUNY Press eBooks, Sep 22, 2008

Research paper thumbnail of Heidegger's hermeneutics and the rhetoric of biblical theology

L'A. met en parallele les analyses de Heidegger sur le langage, «maison de l'etre», et le... more L'A. met en parallele les analyses de Heidegger sur le langage, «maison de l'etre», et le role preponderant dans la Bible de la Parole comme lien entre l'homme et Dieu

Research paper thumbnail of Being Jewish/reading Heidegger: an ontological encounter

... 5. The term "formally indicating rhetorical" is "elliptically cribbed" fr... more ... 5. The term "formally indicating rhetorical" is "elliptically cribbed" from Heidegger's discussion of "formally indicating the historical," in the 1920-21 course "Introduction to the Phenomenology of Religion." See Kisiel, The Genesis of Heidegger's "Being and Time," 164-65. ...

Research paper thumbnail of The relationship between rhetoric and hermeneutics reconsidered

Central States Speech Journal, 1983

... such a way that my words could convey any truth that anyone could grasp on such matters rathe... more ... such a way that my words could convey any truth that anyone could grasp on such matters rather than to set down one true meaning so clearly as to exclude all other meaning which not being false could not offend me."42 What a strange rhetorician Augustine makes of Moses! ...

Research paper thumbnail of Being Jewish/Reading Heidegger

Research paper thumbnail of 14 Hermes' Rhetorical Problem: The Dilemma of the Sacred in Philosophical Hermeneutics

Rhetoric and Hermeneutics in Our Time, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Being Jewish/Reading Heidegger

Heidegger Circle Proceedings, 2005

Research paper thumbnail of What Is Friendship? A Hermeneutical Quibble

Annals of the International Communication Association, 1989

Commentary on Rawlins 205 212 DISCOURSE AND RELATIONSHIPS philosophical subtext that I presumptuo... more Commentary on Rawlins 205 212 DISCOURSE AND RELATIONSHIPS philosophical subtext that I presumptuously think I uncovered in his more overt and also useful empirical discourse on friendship.

Research paper thumbnail of Perelman's universal audience: One perspective

Central States Speech Journal, 1976

This essay explicates Chaim Perelman's concept of the universal audience as a tool that can b... more This essay explicates Chaim Perelman's concept of the universal audience as a tool that can be used to establish the reasonableness of arguments in rhetorical discourse. The concept is applied to the process of invention where it serves as a “check” on the reasonableness of the arguments being constructed.

Research paper thumbnail of The Limits of Narrative: Truth Aspiring Discourse in the Bible

Rhetorica, 1992

raditionally, rabbis gained rhetorical power through the force of their interpretive performance.... more raditionally, rabbis gained rhetorical power through the force of their interpretive performance. The rabbis of the Talmud and those who followed them were not known for their great oratory. It was rather their hermeneutical skUl that marked them as worth listening to. Their "eloquence" was grounded in the strength of their interpretations of the legal and narrative portions of the Torah. FoUowing this heuristic eue, we might speculate as to whether the Bible itself also achieves some measure of its eloquence through the acuity of its interpretive insights. That is, might not the rhetorical power of the Bible also Ue, at least in some part, in the force of its hermeneutical performance as displayed in the text? This relationship between rhetoric and hermeneutics, of course, is explidtly featured in philosophical discourse. We find a philosophical text compeUing in large part because we are im-

Research paper thumbnail of Aristotle's Rhetoric as Ontology: A Heideggerian Reading

Philosophy and Rhetoric, 1999

L'A. mesure les implications ontologiques de la «Rhetorique» d'Aristote reperees par Heid... more L'A. mesure les implications ontologiques de la «Rhetorique» d'Aristote reperees par Heidegger dans son cours du semestre d'hiver 1924 intitule «Les concepts fondamentaux de la philosophie d'Aristote». Soulevant la question philosophique par excellence, a savoir celle de la signification de l'etre, l'A. montre que Heidegger repere le statut de l'ontologie dans la situation hermeneutique concrete qui caracterise la phenomenologie de la parole quotidienne comme activite rheorique du Dasein. Examinant le lien que Heidegger etablit entre son concept de projection et sa conceptualisation de l'ontologie fondamentale d'Aristote dans «Etre et temps», l'A. conclut au passage d'une ontologie du voir et de l'interpretation a une phenomenologie de la parole au sein de la dynamique rhetorique qui apparait comme la condition a priori de l'existence

Research paper thumbnail of The Hermeneutics of Heidegger's Speech: A Rhetorical Phenomenology

Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 1998

Appliquant la formule heideggerienne le langage se montre d'abord en tant que notre facon de ... more Appliquant la formule heideggerienne le langage se montre d'abord en tant que notre facon de parler au propre style de Heidegger, l'A. souleve la question de savoir comment le langage se revele dans la facon de parler du philosophe. Localisant la recherche phenomenologique de Heidegger au sein de sa parole concrete, l'A. montre que la phenomenologie rhetorique que Heidegger developpe dans son exegese de Parmenide est incomplete au regard de l'appel de l'Etre, en ce sens qu'elle n'en fournit que des indications formelles au sein d'une definition du dire comme monstration

Research paper thumbnail of Patrick and Scult, "Rhetoric and Biblical Interpretation

The Jewish Quarterly Review, 1992

Research paper thumbnail of Patrick and Scult, "Rhetoric and Biblical Interpretation

The Jewish Quarterly Review, 1992

Research paper thumbnail of Rhetoric and Biblical Interpretation

... Seminary, Decatur, Georgia) Assistant General Editor: Danna Nolan Fewell (Perkins School of T... more ... Seminary, Decatur, Georgia) Assistant General Editor: Danna Nolan Fewell (Perkins School of Theology, Dallas, Texas) Consultant Editors: Elizabeth Struthers Malbon (Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, Virginia) James G. Williams ... Scult, Allen III. ...

Research paper thumbnail of A Note on the Range and Utility of the Universal Audience

Argumentation and Advocacy, 1985

Research paper thumbnail of Genesis and power: An analysis of the biblical story of creation

Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1986

This essay suggests that power be conceived as a dialectic of “authorship” and “authority.” Inter... more This essay suggests that power be conceived as a dialectic of “authorship” and “authority.” Interest in understanding the rhetorical power of sacred texts is blended with interest in explaining the cultural origins of Anglo‐American social order. Because it is inherently persuasive, and because it became the first principle of arguments for justifying hierarchy, the Biblical story of creation should be

Research paper thumbnail of Jewish Preaching 1200?1800: An Anthology: Jewish Preaching 1200-1800: An Anthology

Research paper thumbnail of RHETORIC AS ONTOLOGY: A READING OF HEIDEGGER'S 1924 LECTURES ON

Philosophy and Rhetoric, 1999

In B&T, Heidegger calls Aristotle's Rhetoric, "The first systematic hermeneutic of the everydayne... more In B&T, Heidegger calls Aristotle's Rhetoric, "The first systematic hermeneutic of the everydayness of Being with one another." Using Aristotle's definition of rhetoric in Book One of The Rhetoric, I show how this hermeneutic achieves ontological reach when filtered through persuasive speech using Aristotle's "method."

Research paper thumbnail of RHETORIC AS ONTOLOGY: A READING OF HEIDEGGER'S 1924 LECTURES ON

Being Jewish/Reading Heidegger: An Ontological Encounter, 2004

This essay picks up where Heidegger left off in his 1924 course on Aristotle's "Rhetoric." I put... more This essay picks up where Heidegger left off in his 1924 course on Aristotle's "Rhetoric." I put the 1924 course in conversation with Aristotle's "Rhetoric." The yield is an ontology based on Aristotle's definition of rhetoric as "an ability in each particular case to to see the available means of persuasion.

Research paper thumbnail of CHAPTER III HERMES' RHETORICAL PROBLEM: THE DILEMMA OF THE SACRED IN PHILOSOPHICAL HERMENEUTICS

Being Jewish/Reading Heidegger: An Ontological Encounter, 2004

This essay explores the problem of "voice" (sometimes called style) in Heidegger's philosophy. C... more This essay explores the problem of "voice" (sometimes called style) in Heidegger's philosophy. Certain issues come to the fore because of Heidegger's presumption of a kind of sacred knowledge. While his voice is sometimes prophetic, I find something even starker at play.