Rhetoric and Kairos
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Rhetoric and Kairos

Essays in History, Theory, and Praxis

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
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Rhetoric and Kairos

Essays in History, Theory, and Praxis

About this book

The first comprehensive discussion of the history, theory, and practice of kairos: that is of the role "timeliness" or "right-timing" plays in human deliberation, speech, and action.

This collection offers the first comprehensive discussion of the history, theory, and pedagogical applications of kairos, a seminal and recently revised concept of classical rhetoric. Augusto Rostagni, James L. Kinneavy, Richard Leo Enos, John Poulakos, and John E. Smith are among the international list of scholars who explore the Homeric and literary origins of kairos, the technologies of time-keeping in antiquity, the role of "right-timing" in Hippocratic medicine, the improvisations of Gorgias, as well as the uses of kairos in Isocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and the New Testament. Broad in its scope, the book also examines the distinctive philosophies of time reflected in Renaissance Humanism, Nineteenth-Century American Transcendentalism, Oriental art and ritual, and the application of kairos to contemporary philosophy, ethics, literary criticism, rhetorical theory, and composition pedagogy.

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Table of contents

  1. Rhetoric and Kairos
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Foreword by Carolyn R. Miller
  5. Introduction: The Ancient Concept of Kairos by Phillip Sipiora
  6. A New Chapter in the History 0f Rhetoric and Sophistry by Augusto Rostagni translated by Phillip Sipiora
  7. Time and Qualitative Time by John E. Smith
  8. Kairos in Classical and Modern Rhetorical Theory by James L. Kinneavy
  9. Inventional Constraints on the Technographers of Ancient Athens: A Study of Kairos by Richard Leo Enos
  10. Kairos in Gorgias’ Rhetorical Compositions by John Poulakos
  11. Hippocrates, Kairos, and Writing in the Sciences by Catherine R. Eskin
  12. Kairos: The Rhetoric of Time and Timing in the New Testament by Phillip Sipiora
  13. Kairos and Decorum: Crassus Orator’s Speech de lege Servilia by Joseph J. Hughes
  14. Ciceronian Decorum and the Temporalities of Renaissance Rhetoric by James S. Baumlin
  15. Chronos, Kairos, Aion: Failures of Decorum, Right-Timing, and Revenge in Shakespeare’s Hamlet by James S. Baumlin and Tita French Baumlin
  16. Ralph Waldo Emerson and the American Kairos by Roger Thompson
  17. In Praise of Kairos in the Arts: Critical Time, East and West by Gregory Mason
  18. Changing Times in Composition Classes: Kairos, Resonance, and the Pythagorean Connection by Carolyn Eriksen Hill
  19. On Doing the Right Thing at the Right Time: Toward an Ethics of Kairos by Amélie Frost Benedikt
  20. A Bibliography on Kairos and Related Concepts by Tanya Zhelezcheva and James S. Baumlin
  21. Contributors
  22. Index