Robert L Scott
Biographic Data
| ID | 95772 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert L Scott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert L |
| FAMILY NAME | Scott |
| SIGNATURE | SCOTT R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Suffering and the feeling of suffering in Marx's Capital
This essay traces Marx's conceptualisation of ‘feeling’ from his Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844, to Capital of 1867, in order to identify its importance for a critique of political economy and theory of revolution. In doing so, I offer a corrective to the reading of Capital as a scientific textbook of historical materialism, and insist upon the text's poetics as essential to its truth.In his Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts,…
The Limits of Recognition
This essay critiques Rita Felski’s employment of Axel Honneth’s theorisation of “recognition” for a postcritical literary theory and, in turn, Honneth’s own appropriation of recognition from Hegel. In her article “Recognizing Class,” Felski uses Honneth’s concept of recognition to read Didier Eribon’s memoir Returning to Reims, and to argue for the importance of lived experience in analyses of class and its literary representation. This leads her…
Rhetorical studies as reduction or redescription? A response to Cherwitz and Hikins
En novembre 2000, Cherwitz et Hikins proposait une critique de l'integrite intellectuelle des principales lignes de recherches en rhetorique contemporaine, qualifiant l'attitude des chercheurs de provinciale. Les As. proposent une reponse a cette critique, insistant sur l'ambiguite des termes utilises et non expliques par Cherwitz et Hikins, et tentent de determiner si la pratique de la recherche en rhetorique se definit comme une redescription o…
The forum: Between silence and certainty: A codicil to “dialectical tensions of speaking and silence”
Eisenhower's farewell address: Response to Medhurst
(1995). Eisenhower's farewell address: Response to Medhurst. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 81, No. 4, pp. 496-501
Dialectical tensions of speaking and silence
This essay is both conventional and non‐conventional. The function of silence in communication has been addressed in academic journals, so the topic is conventional. This essay makes no attempt to incorporate or extend those articles, with one exception. Such silence is not conventional for essays in academic journals. The deeper attempt to be non‐conventional, however, stems from placing in dialogue form a discussion of the functions of silence …
Epistemig rhetoric and criticism: Where Barry Brummett goes wrong
A dear searcher into comparisons: The rhetoric of Ellen Goodman
Ellen Goodman's rhetoric is rooted in comparison. In examining her writings, we found a concrete illustration for the phrase that has gained a fair measure of attention: rhetoric is epistemic. We assess selected examples of her editorials to explore their epistemic function and their force as argument and as symbolic action
Narrative theory and communication research
ON NARRATIVE. Edited by W. J. T. Mitchell. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981; pp. 270. Paper $7.95. NARRATIVE DISCOURSE. By Gerard Genette. Translated by Jane E. Lewin. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1980; pp. 285. $22.50. THE POLITICAL UNCONSCIOUS, NARRATIVE AS A SOCIALLY SYMBOLIC ACT. By Fredric Jameson. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1981; pp. 305. $22.50; paper $7.95. STORY AND DISCOURSE, NARRATIVE STRUCTURES IN FICTION…
Communication as an Intentional, Social System
The argument is presented that taking communication as intentional and as a social system is necessary although not sufficient for defining the concept of communication for scholarly and research purposes. To illustrate the tendency and the error of ignoring the sociality of communication the notion of "intrapersonal communication" is examined. It is contended that many authors reject "intention" as a defining attribute of communication as a resu…
Colloquy: I. A synoptic view of systems of western rhetoric
The conservative voice in radical rhetoric: A common response to division
The radical rhetoric that has marked the late 1960's and early 1970's has been and continues to be diverse. Much of this rhetoric, however, seems to be in response to clear divisions that carry with them orders of privilege. By appealing to well established values, some who have been exploited by the working of the system, have sought to reverse the scale of privilege. In so doing, ironically, they sound a quite conservative voice. This contentio…
Rhetoric, Black Power, and Baldwin's "Another Country"
This piece is rhetorical criticism. That statement may doom the writer at the outset to an absurd posture. Criticism suggests detachment, but the subject is one that mocks such an attitude. Further, striking the critical stance may be innately arrogant and, surely in the searing gospels of the American ghettos even more than in those of yore, does a haughty spirit go before destruction. Nonetheless, the stance is struck. In discussing Anatomy of …
The rhetoric of confrontation
(1969). The rhetoric of confrontation. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 1-8
Messages gouged on ivied walls
BERKELEY: THE NEW STUDENT REVOLT. By Hal Draper. Introduction by Mario Savio. New York: Grove Press Evergreen Book, 1965; pp. ix+246. Paper 95c. THE BERKELEY STUDENT REVOLT. Edited with an Introduction by Seymour Martin Lipset and Sheldon S. Wolin. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday Anchor Book, 1965; pp. xiv+585. Paper $1.95. CRISIS AT COLUMBIA: THE COX COMMISSION REPORT. By Archibald Cox, et al. New York: Vintage Books, 1968; pp. 222. Paper $1.95. T…
Justifying violence‐the rhetoric of militant black power
Black Power is an ambiguous but powerful symbol in the crisis of racial relations. Since the interpretations of reality it entails cannot be avoided and since violent suppression of violent Black Power is possible only at the cost of a police state, we must seek to encourage a constructive working out of Black Power pressures which may allow a symbolic release of violence. Understanding the rhetoric that justifies Black violence will make a const…
Stokely Carmichael: Two speeches on black power
Stokely Carmichael attempted to identify primarily with a black audience in the presentation of a Black Power ideology. White liberals responded negatively. Would the response have been different if the mass media had conveyed the full force of Carmichael's rhetoric?
On viewing rhetoric as epistemic
The common justification of rhetoric as “making the truth effective” courts an attitude which has nearly always viewed rhetoric as the harlot of the arts. “Truth,” of course, can be taken in several senses. If one takes it as prior and immutable, then one has no use for rhetoric except to address inferiors. If one takes it as contingent, then perhaps one ought avoid the term altogether or at least re‐examine the familiar justification, since it i…
Rhetorical criticism
Edwin Black's Rhetorical Criticism: A Study in Method (New York: Macmillan, 1965; pp. xi+177)
Shop talk: Recording the president
Shop talk
Shop talk
Shop talk
Motivation theory in teaching persuasion: Statement and schema
(1961). Motivation theory in teaching persuasion: Statement and schema. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 378-383
Shop talk: On studying abroad‐note from London
The rhetoric of confrontation
(1969). The rhetoric of confrontation. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 1-8
Communication as an Intentional, Social System
The argument is presented that taking communication as intentional and as a social system is necessary although not sufficient for defining the concept of communication for scholarly and research purposes. To illustrate the tendency and the error of ignoring the sociality of communication the notion of "intrapersonal communication" is examined. It is contended that many authors reject "intention" as a defining attribute of communication as a resu…
Dialectical tensions of speaking and silence
This essay is both conventional and non‐conventional. The function of silence in communication has been addressed in academic journals, so the topic is conventional. This essay makes no attempt to incorporate or extend those articles, with one exception. Such silence is not conventional for essays in academic journals. The deeper attempt to be non‐conventional, however, stems from placing in dialogue form a discussion of the functions of silence …
Colloquy: I. A synoptic view of systems of western rhetoric
A dear searcher into comparisons: The rhetoric of Ellen Goodman
Ellen Goodman's rhetoric is rooted in comparison. In examining her writings, we found a concrete illustration for the phrase that has gained a fair measure of attention: rhetoric is epistemic. We assess selected examples of her editorials to explore their epistemic function and their force as argument and as symbolic action
Epistemig rhetoric and criticism: Where Barry Brummett goes wrong
The Limits of Recognition
This essay critiques Rita Felski’s employment of Axel Honneth’s theorisation of “recognition” for a postcritical literary theory and, in turn, Honneth’s own appropriation of recognition from Hegel. In her article “Recognizing Class,” Felski uses Honneth’s concept of recognition to read Didier Eribon’s memoir Returning to Reims, and to argue for the importance of lived experience in analyses of class and its literary representation. This leads her…
Narrative theory and communication research
ON NARRATIVE. Edited by W. J. T. Mitchell. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981; pp. 270. Paper $7.95. NARRATIVE DISCOURSE. By Gerard Genette. Translated by Jane E. Lewin. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1980; pp. 285. $22.50. THE POLITICAL UNCONSCIOUS, NARRATIVE AS A SOCIALLY SYMBOLIC ACT. By Fredric Jameson. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1981; pp. 305. $22.50; paper $7.95. STORY AND DISCOURSE, NARRATIVE STRUCTURES IN FICTION…
Shop talk
Shop talk
Shop talk
Shop talk
Motivation theory in teaching persuasion: Statement and schema
(1961). Motivation theory in teaching persuasion: Statement and schema. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 378-383
Shop talk: On studying abroad‐note from London
Shop talk
Shop talk
Shop talk: The national council of teachers of English
Shop talk: Recording the president
Shop talk
Shop talk
Shop talk
Rhetorical criticism
Edwin Black's Rhetorical Criticism: A Study in Method (New York: Macmillan, 1965; pp. xi+177)
On viewing rhetoric as epistemic
The common justification of rhetoric as “making the truth effective” courts an attitude which has nearly always viewed rhetoric as the harlot of the arts. “Truth,” of course, can be taken in several senses. If one takes it as prior and immutable, then one has no use for rhetoric except to address inferiors. If one takes it as contingent, then perhaps one ought avoid the term altogether or at least re‐examine the familiar justification, since it i…
Justifying violence‐the rhetoric of militant black power
Black Power is an ambiguous but powerful symbol in the crisis of racial relations. Since the interpretations of reality it entails cannot be avoided and since violent suppression of violent Black Power is possible only at the cost of a police state, we must seek to encourage a constructive working out of Black Power pressures which may allow a symbolic release of violence. Understanding the rhetoric that justifies Black violence will make a const…
Stokely Carmichael: Two speeches on black power
Stokely Carmichael attempted to identify primarily with a black audience in the presentation of a Black Power ideology. White liberals responded negatively. Would the response have been different if the mass media had conveyed the full force of Carmichael's rhetoric?
The rhetoric of confrontation
(1969). The rhetoric of confrontation. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 1-8
Messages gouged on ivied walls
BERKELEY: THE NEW STUDENT REVOLT. By Hal Draper. Introduction by Mario Savio. New York: Grove Press Evergreen Book, 1965; pp. ix+246. Paper 95c. THE BERKELEY STUDENT REVOLT. Edited with an Introduction by Seymour Martin Lipset and Sheldon S. Wolin. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday Anchor Book, 1965; pp. xiv+585. Paper $1.95. CRISIS AT COLUMBIA: THE COX COMMISSION REPORT. By Archibald Cox, et al. New York: Vintage Books, 1968; pp. 222. Paper $1.95. T…
Rhetoric, Black Power, and Baldwin's "Another Country"
This piece is rhetorical criticism. That statement may doom the writer at the outset to an absurd posture. Criticism suggests detachment, but the subject is one that mocks such an attitude. Further, striking the critical stance may be innately arrogant and, surely in the searing gospels of the American ghettos even more than in those of yore, does a haughty spirit go before destruction. Nonetheless, the stance is struck. In discussing Anatomy of …
The conservative voice in radical rhetoric: A common response to division
The radical rhetoric that has marked the late 1960's and early 1970's has been and continues to be diverse. Much of this rhetoric, however, seems to be in response to clear divisions that carry with them orders of privilege. By appealing to well established values, some who have been exploited by the working of the system, have sought to reverse the scale of privilege. In so doing, ironically, they sound a quite conservative voice. This contentio…
Colloquy: I. A synoptic view of systems of western rhetoric
Communication as an Intentional, Social System
The argument is presented that taking communication as intentional and as a social system is necessary although not sufficient for defining the concept of communication for scholarly and research purposes. To illustrate the tendency and the error of ignoring the sociality of communication the notion of "intrapersonal communication" is examined. It is contended that many authors reject "intention" as a defining attribute of communication as a resu…
A dear searcher into comparisons: The rhetoric of Ellen Goodman
Ellen Goodman's rhetoric is rooted in comparison. In examining her writings, we found a concrete illustration for the phrase that has gained a fair measure of attention: rhetoric is epistemic. We assess selected examples of her editorials to explore their epistemic function and their force as argument and as symbolic action
Narrative theory and communication research
ON NARRATIVE. Edited by W. J. T. Mitchell. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981; pp. 270. Paper $7.95. NARRATIVE DISCOURSE. By Gerard Genette. Translated by Jane E. Lewin. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1980; pp. 285. $22.50. THE POLITICAL UNCONSCIOUS, NARRATIVE AS A SOCIALLY SYMBOLIC ACT. By Fredric Jameson. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1981; pp. 305. $22.50; paper $7.95. STORY AND DISCOURSE, NARRATIVE STRUCTURES IN FICTION…
Sociology (27 works) · Philosophy (25 works) · Linguistics (20 works) · Political science (12 works) · Rhetoric (11 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (9 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Law (5 works)