Kenneth S Zagacki
Biographic Data
| ID | 3470617 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth S Zagacki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth S |
| FAMILY NAME | Zagacki |
| SIGNATURE | ZAGACKI K S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Louisiana State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Ethos of Rhetoric and Thomas Merton’s “Letters to a White Liberal”
Thomas Merton’s “Letters to a White Liberal” identified “dwelling places” in which his readers could engage the struggle for civil rights as part of a larger theological and political confrontation with evil in the world. They revealed this struggle as a “kairotic” moment and demonstrated how an ethos of rhetoric informed by Christian principles and liberal ideals enabled readers to overcome racial oppression. Merton’s ethos of rhetoric continues…
Cleansing the Superdome
The reopening of the New Orleans Superdome after Hurricane Katrina on Monday Night Football dramatized problematic rhetorical, visual, and spatial norms of purification rituals bound up in what Burke calls the paradox of purity. Hurricane Katrina was significant as a visually traumatic event in large part because it signified the ghetto as a rarely discussed remainder of American structural racism and pressed the filthiest visual and territorial …
Rhetoric and Materiality in the Museum Park at the North Carolina Museum of Art
The material rhetoric of physical locations like the Museum Park at the North Carolina Museum of Art creates “spaces of attention” wherein visitors are invited to experience the landscape around them as a series of enactments that identify the inside/outside components of sub/urban existence, as well as the regenerative/transformative possibilities of such existence. Such rhetorical enactments create innovative opportunities for individuals to at…
Visibility and Rhetoric
This essay demonstrates how visual works of art may operate rhetorically to articulate public knowledge, to illustrate the moral challenges facing citizens, and to shape commemorative practices, through an analysis of Norman Rockwell's civil rights paintings of the 1960s. By examining the rhetorical aspects of these paintings, including their form and composition, the essay demonstrates the power of visual works of art to evoke common humanity in…
Spatial and temporal images in the biodiversity dispute
Scientific argument is spatially and temporally patterned. This structure can intensify or confuse moral, pragmatic and emotional issue. No where is the clash of spatial and temporal issues more important than in the biodiversity debate. The author would like to thank Andrew King, William Keith, and Janice H. Rushing for their helpful comments
Sex differences in imagined interactions
Rhetoric, philosophy, and objectivism
Rhetorical theory has for some decades exhibited an increasing tendency toward exploring the relationship between philosophy and rhetoric. The result has been to view a wide range of activities, including science and philosophy, as inherently rhetorical. This essay examines recent attempts by a number of theorists to develop a “rhetoric of the human sciences,” or more generally, a “rhetoric of inquiry.” It is argued that contemporary tendencies t…
Sex differences in imagined interactions
Cleansing the Superdome
The reopening of the New Orleans Superdome after Hurricane Katrina on Monday Night Football dramatized problematic rhetorical, visual, and spatial norms of purification rituals bound up in what Burke calls the paradox of purity. Hurricane Katrina was significant as a visually traumatic event in large part because it signified the ghetto as a rarely discussed remainder of American structural racism and pressed the filthiest visual and territorial …
Rhetoric and Materiality in the Museum Park at the North Carolina Museum of Art
The material rhetoric of physical locations like the Museum Park at the North Carolina Museum of Art creates “spaces of attention” wherein visitors are invited to experience the landscape around them as a series of enactments that identify the inside/outside components of sub/urban existence, as well as the regenerative/transformative possibilities of such existence. Such rhetorical enactments create innovative opportunities for individuals to at…
Rhetoric, philosophy, and objectivism
Rhetorical theory has for some decades exhibited an increasing tendency toward exploring the relationship between philosophy and rhetoric. The result has been to view a wide range of activities, including science and philosophy, as inherently rhetorical. This essay examines recent attempts by a number of theorists to develop a “rhetoric of the human sciences,” or more generally, a “rhetoric of inquiry.” It is argued that contemporary tendencies t…
Rhetoric, philosophy, and objectivism
Rhetorical theory has for some decades exhibited an increasing tendency toward exploring the relationship between philosophy and rhetoric. The result has been to view a wide range of activities, including science and philosophy, as inherently rhetorical. This essay examines recent attempts by a number of theorists to develop a “rhetoric of the human sciences,” or more generally, a “rhetoric of inquiry.” It is argued that contemporary tendencies t…
Sex differences in imagined interactions
Spatial and temporal images in the biodiversity dispute
Scientific argument is spatially and temporally patterned. This structure can intensify or confuse moral, pragmatic and emotional issue. No where is the clash of spatial and temporal issues more important than in the biodiversity debate. The author would like to thank Andrew King, William Keith, and Janice H. Rushing for their helpful comments
Visibility and Rhetoric
This essay demonstrates how visual works of art may operate rhetorically to articulate public knowledge, to illustrate the moral challenges facing citizens, and to shape commemorative practices, through an analysis of Norman Rockwell's civil rights paintings of the 1960s. By examining the rhetorical aspects of these paintings, including their form and composition, the essay demonstrates the power of visual works of art to evoke common humanity in…
Rhetoric and Materiality in the Museum Park at the North Carolina Museum of Art
The material rhetoric of physical locations like the Museum Park at the North Carolina Museum of Art creates “spaces of attention” wherein visitors are invited to experience the landscape around them as a series of enactments that identify the inside/outside components of sub/urban existence, as well as the regenerative/transformative possibilities of such existence. Such rhetorical enactments create innovative opportunities for individuals to at…
Cleansing the Superdome
The reopening of the New Orleans Superdome after Hurricane Katrina on Monday Night Football dramatized problematic rhetorical, visual, and spatial norms of purification rituals bound up in what Burke calls the paradox of purity. Hurricane Katrina was significant as a visually traumatic event in large part because it signified the ghetto as a rarely discussed remainder of American structural racism and pressed the filthiest visual and territorial …
The Ethos of Rhetoric and Thomas Merton’s “Letters to a White Liberal”
Thomas Merton’s “Letters to a White Liberal” identified “dwelling places” in which his readers could engage the struggle for civil rights as part of a larger theological and political confrontation with evil in the world. They revealed this struggle as a “kairotic” moment and demonstrated how an ethos of rhetoric informed by Christian principles and liberal ideals enabled readers to overcome racial oppression. Merton’s ethos of rhetoric continues…
Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Rhetoric (4 works) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Rhetorical question (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (2 works) · Art (2 works)