TY - JOUR
T1 - Kosmic rhetoric
T2 - Reading democracy alongside walt whitman and the Bhagavad Gita
AU - Engels, Jeremy David
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019/1/2
Y1 - 2019/1/2
N2 - Walt Whitman’s poetry challenges how rhetorical scholars are accustomed to studying democracy. Adopting an ontology similar to, and a vocabulary inspired by, the Bhagavad Gita, Whitman roots democracy squarely in concerns of soteriology, metaphysics, spiritual practice, and the care of the self. By recovering what I call Whitman’s “kosmic rhetoric,” my goal in this essay is to inspire rhetorical scholars to discuss, debate, and reconsider several of our most deeply held assumptions about democratic politics, including anti-foundationalism and the mechanics of dissent.
AB - Walt Whitman’s poetry challenges how rhetorical scholars are accustomed to studying democracy. Adopting an ontology similar to, and a vocabulary inspired by, the Bhagavad Gita, Whitman roots democracy squarely in concerns of soteriology, metaphysics, spiritual practice, and the care of the self. By recovering what I call Whitman’s “kosmic rhetoric,” my goal in this essay is to inspire rhetorical scholars to discuss, debate, and reconsider several of our most deeply held assumptions about democratic politics, including anti-foundationalism and the mechanics of dissent.
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U2 - 10.1080/00335630.2018.1553304
DO - 10.1080/00335630.2018.1553304
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85058928403
SN - 0033-5630
VL - 105
SP - 68
EP - 97
JO - Quarterly Journal of Speech
JF - Quarterly Journal of Speech
IS - 1
ER -