Martin Camper
Biographic Data
| ID | 9160604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Camper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Camper |
| SIGNATURE | CAMPER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Maryland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8893-0493 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Enthymeme
In The Enthymeme: Syllogism, Reasoning, and Narrative in Ancient Greek Rhetoric, James Fredal challenges the contemporary conception of the enthymeme by tracing the concept’s roots to legal “narratives set in adversarial juxtaposition” (4) in ancient oratory. Following the use of the verb enthymeomai in ancient speeches, he posits that orators like Lysias used “enthymizing” to bring presence to persuasive narrative details. Fredal calls this orig…
The Future of the History of Rhetoric is Religious
Recently, in peer reviews of my work on historical religious debates, I have been warned to “avoid[] getting absorbed in ... doctrinal minutiae” and informed that such investigations “seem less relevant to contemporary society.” The former comment exemplifies a broader practice of bracketing off religion when studying historical rhetorics and the latter a common assumption that historical religious rhetorics have little to say to modern secular p…
Rewriting the Bible
When Protestant preachers interpret the Bible, the particular translation can constrain the apparent alignment between sermon and text. To improve alignment, preachers can appeal to the original biblical languages to rewrite the translation. Following the interpretive stases, a classical rhetorical theory of the issues that arise in arguments over textual meaning, this article identifies nine interpretive functions these sermonic appeals can serv…
Developments in Dissociation
Dissociation is considered by many to be Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca's most innovative and significant contribution to rhetorical theory. Currently on display in American debates over racial justice and public health, dissociation is a nuanced process of conceptual reconfiguration. After exploring how dissociation figures in these debates, the introduction summarizes how scholars over the years have extended and complicated the concept. The int…
A Theory of Fan-Type Dissociation
One of the most important developments in twentieth-century rhetorical theory is Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca's insight that concepts, when under strain, can be split or dissociated into two separate terms. Not a simple binary, these terms remain interconnected in a value hierarchy with one term serving as the normative frame for the other. Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca theorize that either term can be dissociated further, producing a fan-type d…
Arguing over Texts
Arguing over Texts presents a rhetorical method for analyzing how people disagree over the meaning of texts and how they attempt to reconcile those disagreements through argument. The book recovers and adapts a classification of recurring types of disagreement over textual meaning, invented by ancient Greek and Roman teachers of rhetoric: the interpretive stases . Drawing on the rhetorical works of Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, and Hermogenes, t…
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Arguing over Texts
Arguing over Texts presents a rhetorical method for analyzing how people disagree over the meaning of texts and how they attempt to reconcile those disagreements through argument. The book recovers and adapts a classification of recurring types of disagreement over textual meaning, invented by ancient Greek and Roman teachers of rhetoric: the interpretive stases . Drawing on the rhetorical works of Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, and Hermogenes, t…
The Future of the History of Rhetoric is Religious
Recently, in peer reviews of my work on historical religious debates, I have been warned to “avoid[] getting absorbed in ... doctrinal minutiae” and informed that such investigations “seem less relevant to contemporary society.” The former comment exemplifies a broader practice of bracketing off religion when studying historical rhetorics and the latter a common assumption that historical religious rhetorics have little to say to modern secular p…
Rewriting the Bible
When Protestant preachers interpret the Bible, the particular translation can constrain the apparent alignment between sermon and text. To improve alignment, preachers can appeal to the original biblical languages to rewrite the translation. Following the interpretive stases, a classical rhetorical theory of the issues that arise in arguments over textual meaning, this article identifies nine interpretive functions these sermonic appeals can serv…
Developments in Dissociation
Dissociation is considered by many to be Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca's most innovative and significant contribution to rhetorical theory. Currently on display in American debates over racial justice and public health, dissociation is a nuanced process of conceptual reconfiguration. After exploring how dissociation figures in these debates, the introduction summarizes how scholars over the years have extended and complicated the concept. The int…
A Theory of Fan-Type Dissociation
One of the most important developments in twentieth-century rhetorical theory is Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca's insight that concepts, when under strain, can be split or dissociated into two separate terms. Not a simple binary, these terms remain interconnected in a value hierarchy with one term serving as the normative frame for the other. Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca theorize that either term can be dissociated further, producing a fan-type d…
The Enthymeme
In The Enthymeme: Syllogism, Reasoning, and Narrative in Ancient Greek Rhetoric, James Fredal challenges the contemporary conception of the enthymeme by tracing the concept’s roots to legal “narratives set in adversarial juxtaposition” (4) in ancient oratory. Following the use of the verb enthymeomai in ancient speeches, he posits that orators like Lysias used “enthymizing” to bring presence to persuasive narrative details. Fredal calls this orig…
Philosophy (6 works) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Rhetorical question (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Rhetoric (3 works) · Chemistry (2 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (2 works)