War & Difference
Kenneth Burke was born in 1897. He lived through two of these, which impacted his philosophical development.
What are two world wars?
Martin Law & Lisa Corrigan argue that this language perpetuates racialized and colonized practices in its interaction with traditional canons of texts.
What is white-speak?
This was the sophistic term for "word."
What is logos?
This philosopher used his teacher, Socrates, as a mouthpiece in his dialogues.
Who was Plato?
Who are Black women?
According to Kris Ratcliffe, we must acknowledge __ as well as value __.
What are commonalities and differences?
Frederick Douglass, through his self-education, became such an eloquent, persuasive orator and activist that certain (racist) audience members believed this about him.
What was, he wasn't actually a slave?
What was, he didn't actually write his own speeches?
What was, he'd been trained by white activists to speak?
Drawing from Plato, Aristotle identified this art as "the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion."
What is rhetoric?
Quintilian's vir bonus referred to this kind of person.
What was the good (virtuous) person speaking well (morally)?
This Greek god, despite his deformity, was worshiped as a figure who used his unique body to achieve things that people with normative bodies could not.
Who is Hephaestus?
In lieu of a traditional, patriarchal rhetoric of persuasion, Sonja Foss & Cindy Griffin propose this type of rhetoric.
What is an invitational rhetoric?
According to Frances Willard, men were the people traditionally engaging in this critical interpretation of Scripture, thus perpetuating sexist and stereotypical roles for Methodist women as well as men.
What is exegesis?
Plato pitted rhetorike, or rhetoric, against this term, which allowed the philosophical search for transcendental truth, or wisdom.
What is dialectic?
This scholar interviewed pairs of Black women who, in their responses, revealed the many tensions surrounding how people reacted based on their hair and body/skin color.
Who is Regina Spellers?
Aspasia used her status as a metic to work in this position, which allowed her to support herself but also show off her intellectual arts.
What was a hetaera?
Kenneth Burke differentiates between scientistic language and dramatistic language, where the former concerns naming things and the latter concerns this.
What is urging to action?
Etymologically, consubstantiality breaks down into these two parts/meanings.
What are "con-," or with, and "substantiality," or "of substance"? (Thus, "of the same substance.")
While logos referred to word(s) for the Sophists, this term referred to the persuasive potential of logos.
What is peitho?
According to this scholar of color, teaching white English in the classroom perpetuates practices that support institutionalized racism.
Who is Asao Inoue?
Frances Willard, as a queer woman who chose not to marry Charles Fowler, ended up encountering gender-based harassment at the hands of these people.
Who were the male students at Northwestern University (where Fowler was president and she was dean of the women students)?
Frederick Douglass described this person, instrumental in his early introduction to learning, thus: "The fatal poison of irresponsible power was already in her hands, and soon commenced its infernal work. That cheerful eye...soon became red with rage; that [sweet] voice...changed to one of harsh and horrid discord; and that angelic face gave place to that of a demon."
Who was Mrs. Auld?
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., describes metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony as the master, or master's, tropes. Conversely, signifyin' tropes are named as this group of people's tropes.
Who are slaves?
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., embraced logos as language, similar to the Sophists. In class--on the board--we connected this logos to this Bantu term, which we compared to the sophistic psychagogia.
What is nommo?
This scholar argues for the importance of "standing under" discourse to hear what is and is not said.
Who is Krista Ratcliffe?
Hephaestus's deformity resulted in this kind of physical appearance.
What is, his feet were twisted or bent out to either side?