Full Description
If rhetoric is the art of speaking, who is listening? In Being-Moved, Daniel M. Gross provides an answer, showing when and where the art of speaking parted ways with the art of listening - and what happens when they intersect once again. Much in the history of rhetoric must be rethought along the way. And much of this rethinking pivots around Martin Heidegger's early lectures on Aristotle's Rhetoric where his famous topic, Being, gives way to being-moved. The results, Gross goes on to show, are profound. Listening to the gods, listening to the world around us, and even listening to one another in the classroom - all of these experiences become different when rhetoric is reoriented from the voice to the ear.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction to the Art of Listening
1. Martin Heidegger on Listening c. 1924
2. Being-Moved: A Disciplinary Prehistory
3. Face-to-Face Communication, Disfigured
4. Passive Voices, Active Listening: A Case Study in Rhetoric
and Composition
Appendix: The Art of Listening in Select English Manuals
and Sermons, 1582-1665
Notes
Works Cited with Additional Suggested Readings
Index
