Nathan Crick
Biographic Data
| ID | 130147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nathan Crick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Crick |
| SIGNATURE | CRICK N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5490-588X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Rhetoric of Fascism
The Rhetoric of Social Movements: Networks, Power, and New Media
Rhetoric of Social Movements: Networks, Power, and New Media
The Art of Gratitude
Kant’s Philosophy of Communication
Book Review| March 01 2018 Kant’s Philosophy of Communication Kant’s Philosophy of Communication. By Gina L. Ercolini. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2016; pp. viii + 251; $30 paper. Nathan Crick Nathan Crick Texas A&M University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (1): 186–189. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.1.0186 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter …
Aesthetics
Aesthetics in communication represents the art of manipulating symbolic forms in such a way that it produces pleasure and pain through the manipulation of appearances and, at its most eloquent, conveys a sense of beauty that opens up a sphere of the possible. One can trace, however, three different ways of approaching the relationship between communication and aesthetics. First, aesthetics can be seen as the science of the senses. Second, aesthet…
Communication Ethics in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt’s Rhetoric of Warning and Hope
I Says to Myself, Says I”: Charles Sanders Peirce on the Components of Dialogue
Peirce famously defined the process of thinking as what a person is “‘saying to himself,’ that is, is saying to that other self that is just coming into life in the flow of time.” For Peirce, this meant the essence of thinking is dialogue. This essay proposes a conception of dialogue grounded in Peirce's normative ideal of inquiry that challenges contemporary thinking about dialogue yet supports the same moral and ethical aims. Using a scene from…
Ryan White. The Hidden God: Pragmatism and Posthumanism in American Thought
In his introduction to “Experience,” Ralph Waldo Emerson boldly announced that we always find ourselves on the stairs. Below are the stairs we have ascended, and above are steps that climb into the distance to an end we cannot see. Ryan White’s The Hidden God: Pragmatism and Posthumanism in American Thought represents an extended exposition on the implications of this metaphor, an effort to find a way “to cope with a permanent lack of foundation,…
The War that Ended Peace: The Road to 1914
Margaret MacMillan's The War that Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 shares a good deal with Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War. It offers a lively and engaging account of the origins of one
The Storyteller, Novelist, and Charlatan: Forms of Performance in the Age of Digital Reproduction
In this essay, we look at how three traditional forms of performance identified by Walter Benjamin function in the digital age. With greater accessibility to the means of production, digital performances can be created by just about anyone. The performances we analyze show how Benjamin's conception of the storyteller, the novelist, and the charlatan can thrive in online environments. While the performances of the storyteller and the novelist sugg…
Rhetoric and Power: The Drama of Classical Greece
William James and the Art of Popular Statement
When William James published Pragmatism in 1907, it sold out in a matter of weeks, selling just as well as a popular novel. In his book, William James and the Art of Popular Statement, Paul Stob cr
The Rhetorical Surface of Democracy: How Deliberative Ideals Undermine Democratic Politics
Book Review| June 01 2014 The Rhetorical Surface of Democracy: How Deliberative Ideals Undermine Democratic Politics The Rhetorical Surface of Democracy: How Deliberative Ideals Undermine Democratic Politics. By Scott Welsh. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013; pp. 206. $65.00 cloth. Liz Sills; Liz Sills Louisiana State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nathan Crick Nathan Crick Texas A&M University Search for ot…
Rhetoric and Power: The Drama of Classical Greece
Through Rhetoric and Power, Nathan Crick dramatizes the history of rhetoric by explaining its origin and development in Classical Greece beginning the oral displays of Homeric eloquence in a time of kings following its ascent to power during the age of Pericles and the Sophists, and ending with its transformation into a rational discipline with Aristotle in a time of literacy and empire. Crick advances the thesis that rhetoric is primarily a medi…
Death and Eloquence
The lesson of Homer’s Iliad is that eloquence arises out of a confrontation with death. Perhaps the most dramatic of these confrontations is the death of Patroclus, an event that elicits epideictic speech by three parties: immortal horses, Xanthos and Balios; an immortal god, Zeus; and a mortal human, Patroclus. However, although the reaction of the horses and of Zeus reflect the pathos and logos of eloquence, respectively, this essay argues that…
Listening, Hearing, Sensing: Three Modes of Being and the Phenomenology of Charles Sanders Peirce
Journal Article Listening, Hearing, Sensing: Three Modes of Being and the Phenomenology of Charles Sanders Peirce Get access Graham D. Bodie, Graham D. Bodie 1Department of Communication Studies, Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College, Baton Rouge, LA, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Nathan Crick Nathan Crick 2Department of Communication, Texas AM University, College Station, …
The Effort of Reason, and the Adventure of Beauty”: The Aesthetic Rhetoric of Randolph Bourne
We are still coming to terms with the legacy of Randolph Bourne. Although he died at the age of 32 just as the United States was cheerfully entering the First World War under the banner of “democracy,” the words he penned in an unfinished essay still resonate in the American social conscience: “War is the Health of the State.” This maxim, once thought the exclusive property of leftist radicals, now can be heard echoing from every political corner…
The Sophistical Attitude and the Invention of Rhetoric
Traditionally, the Older Sophists were conceived as philosophical skeptics who rejected speculative inquiry to focus on rhetorical methods of being successful in practical life. More recently, this view has been complicated by studies revealing the Sophists to be a diverse group of intellectuals who practiced their art prior to the categorization of “rhêtorikê,” thereby rendering the very meaning of the general term “Sophist” far more problematic…
Go Tell Alcibiades: Tragedy, Comedy, and Rhetoric in Plato's Symposium
Plato's Symposium is a significant but neglected part of his elaborate and complex attitude toward rhetoric. Unlike the intellectual discussion of the Gorgias or the unscripted conversation of the Phaedrus, the Symposium stages a feast celebrating and driven by the forces of Eros. A luxuriously stylish performance rather than a rational critique or a bemused apotheosis of rhetoric, the Symposium asks to be read within a performative tradition tha…
A Capital and Novel Argument”: Charles Darwin's Notebooks and the Productivity of Rhetorical Consciousness
With the rise of poststructuralist critiques of the autonomous subject, attention has shifted from the nature of “intentional persuasion” to the constitutive nature of discourse. Although this turn has led to valuable new insights into the nature of rhetoric, it also threatens to discount one of the most vital contributions of the rhetorical tradition—the nature of rhetorical invention. This essay seeks to recover the notion of invention by drawi…
Listening, Hearing, Sensing: Three Modes of Being and the Phenomenology of Charles Sanders Peirce
Journal Article Listening, Hearing, Sensing: Three Modes of Being and the Phenomenology of Charles Sanders Peirce Get access Graham D. Bodie, Graham D. Bodie 1Department of Communication Studies, Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College, Baton Rouge, LA, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Nathan Crick Nathan Crick 2Department of Communication, Texas AM University, College Station, …
Death and Eloquence
The lesson of Homer’s Iliad is that eloquence arises out of a confrontation with death. Perhaps the most dramatic of these confrontations is the death of Patroclus, an event that elicits epideictic speech by three parties: immortal horses, Xanthos and Balios; an immortal god, Zeus; and a mortal human, Patroclus. However, although the reaction of the horses and of Zeus reflect the pathos and logos of eloquence, respectively, this essay argues that…
A Capital and Novel Argument”: Charles Darwin's Notebooks and the Productivity of Rhetorical Consciousness
With the rise of poststructuralist critiques of the autonomous subject, attention has shifted from the nature of “intentional persuasion” to the constitutive nature of discourse. Although this turn has led to valuable new insights into the nature of rhetoric, it also threatens to discount one of the most vital contributions of the rhetorical tradition—the nature of rhetorical invention. This essay seeks to recover the notion of invention by drawi…
Go Tell Alcibiades: Tragedy, Comedy, and Rhetoric in Plato's Symposium
Plato's Symposium is a significant but neglected part of his elaborate and complex attitude toward rhetoric. Unlike the intellectual discussion of the Gorgias or the unscripted conversation of the Phaedrus, the Symposium stages a feast celebrating and driven by the forces of Eros. A luxuriously stylish performance rather than a rational critique or a bemused apotheosis of rhetoric, the Symposium asks to be read within a performative tradition tha…
The Sophistical Attitude and the Invention of Rhetoric
Traditionally, the Older Sophists were conceived as philosophical skeptics who rejected speculative inquiry to focus on rhetorical methods of being successful in practical life. More recently, this view has been complicated by studies revealing the Sophists to be a diverse group of intellectuals who practiced their art prior to the categorization of “rhêtorikê,” thereby rendering the very meaning of the general term “Sophist” far more problematic…
The Effort of Reason, and the Adventure of Beauty”: The Aesthetic Rhetoric of Randolph Bourne
We are still coming to terms with the legacy of Randolph Bourne. Although he died at the age of 32 just as the United States was cheerfully entering the First World War under the banner of “democracy,” the words he penned in an unfinished essay still resonate in the American social conscience: “War is the Health of the State.” This maxim, once thought the exclusive property of leftist radicals, now can be heard echoing from every political corner…
Rhetoric and Power: The Drama of Classical Greece
William James and the Art of Popular Statement
When William James published Pragmatism in 1907, it sold out in a matter of weeks, selling just as well as a popular novel. In his book, William James and the Art of Popular Statement, Paul Stob cr
The Rhetorical Surface of Democracy: How Deliberative Ideals Undermine Democratic Politics
Book Review| June 01 2014 The Rhetorical Surface of Democracy: How Deliberative Ideals Undermine Democratic Politics The Rhetorical Surface of Democracy: How Deliberative Ideals Undermine Democratic Politics. By Scott Welsh. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013; pp. 206. $65.00 cloth. Liz Sills; Liz Sills Louisiana State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nathan Crick Nathan Crick Texas A&M University Search for ot…
Rhetoric and Power: The Drama of Classical Greece
Through Rhetoric and Power, Nathan Crick dramatizes the history of rhetoric by explaining its origin and development in Classical Greece beginning the oral displays of Homeric eloquence in a time of kings following its ascent to power during the age of Pericles and the Sophists, and ending with its transformation into a rational discipline with Aristotle in a time of literacy and empire. Crick advances the thesis that rhetoric is primarily a medi…
Death and Eloquence
The lesson of Homer’s Iliad is that eloquence arises out of a confrontation with death. Perhaps the most dramatic of these confrontations is the death of Patroclus, an event that elicits epideictic speech by three parties: immortal horses, Xanthos and Balios; an immortal god, Zeus; and a mortal human, Patroclus. However, although the reaction of the horses and of Zeus reflect the pathos and logos of eloquence, respectively, this essay argues that…
Listening, Hearing, Sensing: Three Modes of Being and the Phenomenology of Charles Sanders Peirce
Journal Article Listening, Hearing, Sensing: Three Modes of Being and the Phenomenology of Charles Sanders Peirce Get access Graham D. Bodie, Graham D. Bodie 1Department of Communication Studies, Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College, Baton Rouge, LA, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Nathan Crick Nathan Crick 2Department of Communication, Texas AM University, College Station, …
The Storyteller, Novelist, and Charlatan: Forms of Performance in the Age of Digital Reproduction
In this essay, we look at how three traditional forms of performance identified by Walter Benjamin function in the digital age. With greater accessibility to the means of production, digital performances can be created by just about anyone. The performances we analyze show how Benjamin's conception of the storyteller, the novelist, and the charlatan can thrive in online environments. While the performances of the storyteller and the novelist sugg…
Aesthetics
Aesthetics in communication represents the art of manipulating symbolic forms in such a way that it produces pleasure and pain through the manipulation of appearances and, at its most eloquent, conveys a sense of beauty that opens up a sphere of the possible. One can trace, however, three different ways of approaching the relationship between communication and aesthetics. First, aesthetics can be seen as the science of the senses. Second, aesthet…
Communication Ethics in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt’s Rhetoric of Warning and Hope
I Says to Myself, Says I”: Charles Sanders Peirce on the Components of Dialogue
Peirce famously defined the process of thinking as what a person is “‘saying to himself,’ that is, is saying to that other self that is just coming into life in the flow of time.” For Peirce, this meant the essence of thinking is dialogue. This essay proposes a conception of dialogue grounded in Peirce's normative ideal of inquiry that challenges contemporary thinking about dialogue yet supports the same moral and ethical aims. Using a scene from…
Ryan White. The Hidden God: Pragmatism and Posthumanism in American Thought
In his introduction to “Experience,” Ralph Waldo Emerson boldly announced that we always find ourselves on the stairs. Below are the stairs we have ascended, and above are steps that climb into the distance to an end we cannot see. Ryan White’s The Hidden God: Pragmatism and Posthumanism in American Thought represents an extended exposition on the implications of this metaphor, an effort to find a way “to cope with a permanent lack of foundation,…
The War that Ended Peace: The Road to 1914
Margaret MacMillan's The War that Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 shares a good deal with Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War. It offers a lively and engaging account of the origins of one
Kant’s Philosophy of Communication
Book Review| March 01 2018 Kant’s Philosophy of Communication Kant’s Philosophy of Communication. By Gina L. Ercolini. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2016; pp. viii + 251; $30 paper. Nathan Crick Nathan Crick Texas A&M University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (1): 186–189. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.1.0186 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter …
The Art of Gratitude
The Rhetoric of Social Movements: Networks, Power, and New Media
Rhetoric of Social Movements: Networks, Power, and New Media
The Rhetoric of Fascism
Philosophy (15 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Art (11 works) · Rhetoric (10 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (8 works) · Literature (7 works) · Theology (6 works)