Daniel M Gro
Biographic Data
| ID | 322965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel M Gro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel M |
| FAMILY NAME | Gro |
| SIGNATURE | GRO D M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0612-2020 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Weimar Origins of Rhetorical Inquiry
When we pick up a big book like this with big names including Heidegger, Arendt, Benjamin, and Warburg, we want to learn something significant we don't already know by way of reading and reputation. And if we are in rhetoric per se, we are especially eager to see how these people are attached substantially to a field that none of them claimed. Following from these initial expectations, we are then owed a plausible methodology that tends neither t…
Introduction: Alva Noë, “In Focus”
Alva Noë, who is a major figure in establishment philosophy, has been producing work that speaks directly to rhetoric in new ways that are important. This “In Focus” project explores how so, with the help of Carrie Noland on dance, Thomas Rickert on music, and, in a previous issue of Philosophy & Rhetoric 53.1, Nancy Struever on the basics of human inquiry including pictorial, which she thinks almost nobody gets right except for R. G. Collingwood…
Darwin and the Situation of Emotion Research
This article demonstrates how researchers from both the sciences and the humanities can learn from Charles Darwin’s mixed methodology. We identify two basic challenges that face emotion research in the sciences, namely a mismatch between experiment design and the complexity of life that we aim to explain, and problematic efforts to bridge the gap, including invalid inferences from constrained study designs, and equivocal use of terms like “sympat…
Why Theory Now? An Introduction
The old news is that Theory with a capital “T” happened from approximately 1965–85 and then dissipated in scandal. Or to the contrary, Theory is an ancient and global activity we find wherever we have evidence of systematic reflection, upon language especially. Alive and well. But neither of these stories can be adequate given a graph like those above, and given our facts on the ground. For Theory is still, or is again robust, with Philosophy & R…
Beginnings and Ends of Rhetorical Theory: Ann Arbor 1900
Google Ngram metadata reveal that the English phrase “rhetorical theory” is not that old, appearing on the scene in the latter half of the nineteenth century, and then picking up dramatically with critical and literary theory in the 1960s. How do we square this with familiar arguments that rhetorical theory is much, much older? In this forum contribution I argue that the long view applies to our contemporary rhetorical theory only if we equivocat…
Frameworks for Failure
In the wake of the influential 2011 Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing, this article extends the conversation along two related tracks: historical and theoretical. We situate the Framework historically with respect to the philosophies and cultural pressures behind the “habits of mind” structure so central to the text. We then read success against queer theory's recent turn to negative emotion, notably in Ahmed's The Promise of Happine…
Rhetoric and the origins of the human sciences: A Foucauldian tale untold
Michel Foucault’s famous history of the human sciences focused on “the order of things” and in doing so it overwhelmed a rhetorical perspective that can track the arts of moving souls: pedagogy, politics, and psychology. If we revisit Foucault from a rhetorical perspective there are consequences: (1) at the level of architectonic, we rediscover rhetoric’s role at the inception of the human sciences, and (2) at the level of thematic, we can make b…
Science and Emotions After 1945: A Transatlantic Perspective
Defending the Humanities with Charles Darwin'sThe Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals(1872)
Personal identity in the history of ideas: The born-again Christian as a case study
The 'born-again Christian' is an idea that lies at the heart of early-modern Lutheranism as well as more recent evangelical Christianity of the sort famously practiced by George W. Bush. It is also, clearly, a way of being: the most unexceptional people can be born again. For scholars negotiating the boundary between intellectual history and cultural studies, the born-again Christian therefore provides a case study illuminating histories of perso…
Caussin’s Passion and the New History of Rhetoric
Nicolaus Caussin’s Eloquentia sacrae et humaneae parellela (1619) forges a distinctly modern history of rhetoric that ties discourse to culture. What were the conditions that made this new history of rhetoric possible? Marc Fumaroli has argued that political exigency in Cardinal Richelieu’s France demanded a reconciliation of divergent religious and secular forms of eloquence that implicated, in turn, a newly “eclectic” history of rhetoric. But p…
Caussin's Passion and the New History of Rhetoric
Nicolaus Caussin's Eloquentia sacrae et humaneae parellela (1619) forges a distinctly modern history of rhetoric that ties discourse to culture. What were the conditions that made this new history of rhetoric possible? Marc Fumaroli has argued that political exigency in Cardinal Richelieu's France demanded a reconciliation of divergent religious and secular forms of eloquence that implicated, in turn, a newly "eclectic" history of rhetoric. But p…
Melanchthon’s rhetoric and the practical origins of Reformation human science
At the beginning of the 16th century in Germany, religious ends and human art joined forces to produce a sacred rhetoric: a rhetoric that could transform human nature, and explain at the same time how such transformation was possible according to both science and scripture. No longer was it enough to ask in Scholastic fashion ‘What is man?’ - his essence and unique faculties, his special place in God’s world. A new question took on urgency in the…
Rescuing the Past
All the central ideas of Critical Theory were originally formulated between the early 1930s and the mid-1950s. Though it is true that some of the major works of Critical Theory appeared subsequent to the 1950s — for example, Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man (1964) or Adorno's Negative Dialectics (1966) — it is also true that these works were essentially elaborations on concepts developed two or three decades earlier. Ironically, it was just at the p…
Hope Among the Ruins
Jacoby builds his argument about the decline of public intellectuals on the assumption that there have been roughly three stages through which intellectuals have passed in this century. These give his argument a structure and help explain the disappointments he feels regarding the last of these stages — the one we are in. The first stage consists of those intellectuals born around 1900 (Mumford, Wilson, McDonald) who made their living primarily b…
Symposium on Soviet Peasants
In 1981, an extraordinary work, written by Lev Timofeev, was smuggled to the West and immediately printed in Russian. It has now been translated into English for the first time under the title Soviet Peasants (or: The Peasants'; Art of Starving).' The book is a rare exercise in social anthropology in as much as Timofeev manages to bring together an expert's knowledge of Soviet agricultural policy with penetrating observations on the everyday life…
Marxism and Modernism: An Historical Study of Lukacs, Brecht, Benjamin and Adorno
Eugene Lunn, Marxism and Modernism: An Historical Study of Lukács, Brecht, Benjamin and Adorno. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1982, 330 pages
Change and Exchange: French Periodicals Since 1968
Culture and Negativity: Notes Toward a Theory of the Carnival
A lot can be learned about a culture by observing how it deals with the underside of life—with all those things it decides, for whatever reason, are unacceptable or beyod the pale. Every society, like every individual, holds up an image of what it thinks it is, but this is never the whole of what it actually its. Underneath the façade, in the interstices of social life and in the hidden spaces still considered taboo, one can often find the key to…
"Irony and the "Disorders of the Soul
In 1908 the Russian poet Alexander Blok made a statement which could be taken as an epigraph for our age. “All the most lively and sensitive children of our century,” he wrote, “are stricken by a disease unknown to our doctors and psychiatrists. It is related to the disorders of the soul and might be called ‘irony’.” How true this insight has become by the 1970s probably even Blok could not have imagined. Though no one has put it quite this way, …
The Seventh Hero: Thomas Carlyle and the Theory of Radical Activism
Philip Rosenberg, The Seventh Hero: Thomas Carlyle and the Theory of Radical Activism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974. 235 plus xi pages. $10.00
On Writing Cultural Criticism
Why Write? In 1947 Sartre asked this question. Since then others, especially in France, have addressed themselves to this same question. Why, and to what end, string words into sentences and sentences into paragraphs until at last a final product appears: the article, the book, l'oeuvre? The issue Sartre raised is so simple that it had never been phrased in quite this way before. And in response there have been several answers. Sartre suggests th…
Melanchthon’s rhetoric and the practical origins of Reformation human science
At the beginning of the 16th century in Germany, religious ends and human art joined forces to produce a sacred rhetoric: a rhetoric that could transform human nature, and explain at the same time how such transformation was possible according to both science and scripture. No longer was it enough to ask in Scholastic fashion ‘What is man?’ - his essence and unique faculties, his special place in God’s world. A new question took on urgency in the…
Defending the Humanities with Charles Darwin'sThe Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals(1872)
Caussin's Passion and the New History of Rhetoric
Nicolaus Caussin's Eloquentia sacrae et humaneae parellela (1619) forges a distinctly modern history of rhetoric that ties discourse to culture. What were the conditions that made this new history of rhetoric possible? Marc Fumaroli has argued that political exigency in Cardinal Richelieu's France demanded a reconciliation of divergent religious and secular forms of eloquence that implicated, in turn, a newly "eclectic" history of rhetoric. But p…
Rescuing the Past
All the central ideas of Critical Theory were originally formulated between the early 1930s and the mid-1950s. Though it is true that some of the major works of Critical Theory appeared subsequent to the 1950s — for example, Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man (1964) or Adorno's Negative Dialectics (1966) — it is also true that these works were essentially elaborations on concepts developed two or three decades earlier. Ironically, it was just at the p…
Hope Among the Ruins
Jacoby builds his argument about the decline of public intellectuals on the assumption that there have been roughly three stages through which intellectuals have passed in this century. These give his argument a structure and help explain the disappointments he feels regarding the last of these stages — the one we are in. The first stage consists of those intellectuals born around 1900 (Mumford, Wilson, McDonald) who made their living primarily b…
Change and Exchange: French Periodicals Since 1968
On Writing Cultural Criticism
Why Write? In 1947 Sartre asked this question. Since then others, especially in France, have addressed themselves to this same question. Why, and to what end, string words into sentences and sentences into paragraphs until at last a final product appears: the article, the book, l'oeuvre? The issue Sartre raised is so simple that it had never been phrased in quite this way before. And in response there have been several answers. Sartre suggests th…
The Seventh Hero: Thomas Carlyle and the Theory of Radical Activism
Philip Rosenberg, The Seventh Hero: Thomas Carlyle and the Theory of Radical Activism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974. 235 plus xi pages. $10.00
"Irony and the "Disorders of the Soul
In 1908 the Russian poet Alexander Blok made a statement which could be taken as an epigraph for our age. “All the most lively and sensitive children of our century,” he wrote, “are stricken by a disease unknown to our doctors and psychiatrists. It is related to the disorders of the soul and might be called ‘irony’.” How true this insight has become by the 1970s probably even Blok could not have imagined. Though no one has put it quite this way, …
Culture and Negativity: Notes Toward a Theory of the Carnival
A lot can be learned about a culture by observing how it deals with the underside of life—with all those things it decides, for whatever reason, are unacceptable or beyod the pale. Every society, like every individual, holds up an image of what it thinks it is, but this is never the whole of what it actually its. Underneath the façade, in the interstices of social life and in the hidden spaces still considered taboo, one can often find the key to…
Change and Exchange: French Periodicals Since 1968
Marxism and Modernism: An Historical Study of Lukacs, Brecht, Benjamin and Adorno
Eugene Lunn, Marxism and Modernism: An Historical Study of Lukács, Brecht, Benjamin and Adorno. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1982, 330 pages
Symposium on Soviet Peasants
In 1981, an extraordinary work, written by Lev Timofeev, was smuggled to the West and immediately printed in Russian. It has now been translated into English for the first time under the title Soviet Peasants (or: The Peasants'; Art of Starving).' The book is a rare exercise in social anthropology in as much as Timofeev manages to bring together an expert's knowledge of Soviet agricultural policy with penetrating observations on the everyday life…
Hope Among the Ruins
Jacoby builds his argument about the decline of public intellectuals on the assumption that there have been roughly three stages through which intellectuals have passed in this century. These give his argument a structure and help explain the disappointments he feels regarding the last of these stages — the one we are in. The first stage consists of those intellectuals born around 1900 (Mumford, Wilson, McDonald) who made their living primarily b…
Rescuing the Past
All the central ideas of Critical Theory were originally formulated between the early 1930s and the mid-1950s. Though it is true that some of the major works of Critical Theory appeared subsequent to the 1950s — for example, Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man (1964) or Adorno's Negative Dialectics (1966) — it is also true that these works were essentially elaborations on concepts developed two or three decades earlier. Ironically, it was just at the p…
Melanchthon’s rhetoric and the practical origins of Reformation human science
At the beginning of the 16th century in Germany, religious ends and human art joined forces to produce a sacred rhetoric: a rhetoric that could transform human nature, and explain at the same time how such transformation was possible according to both science and scripture. No longer was it enough to ask in Scholastic fashion ‘What is man?’ - his essence and unique faculties, his special place in God’s world. A new question took on urgency in the…
Caussin’s Passion and the New History of Rhetoric
Nicolaus Caussin’s Eloquentia sacrae et humaneae parellela (1619) forges a distinctly modern history of rhetoric that ties discourse to culture. What were the conditions that made this new history of rhetoric possible? Marc Fumaroli has argued that political exigency in Cardinal Richelieu’s France demanded a reconciliation of divergent religious and secular forms of eloquence that implicated, in turn, a newly “eclectic” history of rhetoric. But p…
Caussin's Passion and the New History of Rhetoric
Nicolaus Caussin's Eloquentia sacrae et humaneae parellela (1619) forges a distinctly modern history of rhetoric that ties discourse to culture. What were the conditions that made this new history of rhetoric possible? Marc Fumaroli has argued that political exigency in Cardinal Richelieu's France demanded a reconciliation of divergent religious and secular forms of eloquence that implicated, in turn, a newly "eclectic" history of rhetoric. But p…
Personal identity in the history of ideas: The born-again Christian as a case study
The 'born-again Christian' is an idea that lies at the heart of early-modern Lutheranism as well as more recent evangelical Christianity of the sort famously practiced by George W. Bush. It is also, clearly, a way of being: the most unexceptional people can be born again. For scholars negotiating the boundary between intellectual history and cultural studies, the born-again Christian therefore provides a case study illuminating histories of perso…
Defending the Humanities with Charles Darwin'sThe Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals(1872)
Science and Emotions After 1945: A Transatlantic Perspective
Frameworks for Failure
In the wake of the influential 2011 Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing, this article extends the conversation along two related tracks: historical and theoretical. We situate the Framework historically with respect to the philosophies and cultural pressures behind the “habits of mind” structure so central to the text. We then read success against queer theory's recent turn to negative emotion, notably in Ahmed's The Promise of Happine…
Rhetoric and the origins of the human sciences: A Foucauldian tale untold
Michel Foucault’s famous history of the human sciences focused on “the order of things” and in doing so it overwhelmed a rhetorical perspective that can track the arts of moving souls: pedagogy, politics, and psychology. If we revisit Foucault from a rhetorical perspective there are consequences: (1) at the level of architectonic, we rediscover rhetoric’s role at the inception of the human sciences, and (2) at the level of thematic, we can make b…
Darwin and the Situation of Emotion Research
This article demonstrates how researchers from both the sciences and the humanities can learn from Charles Darwin’s mixed methodology. We identify two basic challenges that face emotion research in the sciences, namely a mismatch between experiment design and the complexity of life that we aim to explain, and problematic efforts to bridge the gap, including invalid inferences from constrained study designs, and equivocal use of terms like “sympat…
Why Theory Now? An Introduction
The old news is that Theory with a capital “T” happened from approximately 1965–85 and then dissipated in scandal. Or to the contrary, Theory is an ancient and global activity we find wherever we have evidence of systematic reflection, upon language especially. Alive and well. But neither of these stories can be adequate given a graph like those above, and given our facts on the ground. For Theory is still, or is again robust, with Philosophy & R…
Beginnings and Ends of Rhetorical Theory: Ann Arbor 1900
Google Ngram metadata reveal that the English phrase “rhetorical theory” is not that old, appearing on the scene in the latter half of the nineteenth century, and then picking up dramatically with critical and literary theory in the 1960s. How do we square this with familiar arguments that rhetorical theory is much, much older? In this forum contribution I argue that the long view applies to our contemporary rhetorical theory only if we equivocat…
The Weimar Origins of Rhetorical Inquiry
When we pick up a big book like this with big names including Heidegger, Arendt, Benjamin, and Warburg, we want to learn something significant we don't already know by way of reading and reputation. And if we are in rhetoric per se, we are especially eager to see how these people are attached substantially to a field that none of them claimed. Following from these initial expectations, we are then owed a plausible methodology that tends neither t…
Introduction: Alva Noë, “In Focus”
Alva Noë, who is a major figure in establishment philosophy, has been producing work that speaks directly to rhetoric in new ways that are important. This “In Focus” project explores how so, with the help of Carrie Noland on dance, Thomas Rickert on music, and, in a previous issue of Philosophy & Rhetoric 53.1, Nancy Struever on the basics of human inquiry including pictorial, which she thinks almost nobody gets right except for R. G. Collingwood…
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