CMN 538

Fall 2019

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Seminar Rhetorical Theory
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Credit: 4 hours.

Study of special topics in the history of rhetorical theory.

May be repeated to a maximum of 16 hours.

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57571
Lecture-Discussion
2
2:00PM -4:50PM
W
4103 Lincoln Hall
Murphy, J
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/26/19-12/11/19
Section Title:
Rhetoric of Black Freedom
Section Info:
The Rhetoric of the Black Freedom Movement 1948-1984 explores the languages that justified equal rights for African Americans leading to, during, and shortly after the classical phase of the civil rights movement. It attends to movement rhetoric, white supremacist discourse, legislative and political debates as well as some of the extensive secondary rhetorical literature on civil rights. In particular, the course will (tentatively) proceed through a series of mini-rhetorical biographies, exploring key figures in the movement and beyond.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
71421
Lecture-Discussion
3
2:00PM -4:50PM
M
4103 Lincoln Hall
O'Gorman, T
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/26/19-12/11/19
Section Title:
Arendt and Rhetorical Theory
Section Info:
Since her untimely death in 1975, Hannah Arendt has held a critical if peculiar place in political theory and philosophy, and a pervasive but largely unexamined place in rhetorical studies. In her own day, Arendt was neither a rationalist nor a romantic, neither a modernist nor what would soon be called a “post-modernist,” and neither a political scientist nor a political philosopher. Rather, she saw herself a thinker, above all a thinker of the “political.” And her thinking about the political, as David Marshall has written, “was essentially rhetorical” (Marshall, “The Origins and Character of Hannah Arendt’s Theory of Judgment,” 376). This graduate seminar will examine the rhetorical-political thinking of Arendt by reading five of her key postwar works: Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), The Human Condition (1958), Between Past and Future (1961), On Revolution (1963), Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), and Crises of the Republic (1972). Our goal will be to trace the evolution of Arendt’s thinking about rhetoric and politics from her pathbreaking critique of totalitarianism in Origins to her devastating critiques of the U.S. war state in and around the Vietnam War. Along the way, we will read selected secondary scholarship on Arendt, and track the relevance of her thinking for our contemporary political crises. This graduate seminar is suitable for, and open to, all graduate students in all humanistic fields of study. There is no prerequisite, and it is assumed that students will have little knowledge of Arendt’s work coming in. In addition to regular participation, students will be expected to produce a quality seminar paper.
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