Rhetoric: Classical, Postmodern, Nonmodern

This is a blog for English 852, a seminar in Rhetoric and Professional Communication taught at Clemson University in fall 2011.

Monday, December 5, 2011

Issues With Technology

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After reading Heidegger (several times) and looking at all of the available secondary sources that attempt to simplify the dense style that ...

Heidegger, Modern Technology and the Standing Reserve

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In Heidegger's "The Question Concerning Technology," he takes a look at the ways that we understand technology and its essence...

Revealing and the Punctum: Man’s Call to Action

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In "The Question Concerning Technology," aside from the main argument Heidegger is making on the essence of technology and our rel...

Fourfold Technology

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As I read this week's essays, Heidegger's writing style made the concept of the fourfold a bit confusing to me (e.g., "the thin...

If Heidigger had a Facebook...

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In Heidigger's The Thing , he says on page 163, "Yet the frantic abolition of all distances brings no nearness; for nearness doe...

The thingness of the thing

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In his article, "The Thing", Heidegger discusses how science conceals the "thingness of the thing" and essentially ...

Object Lesson VII: The Fourfold One

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Heidegger’s fourfold, to me, encapsulates a concept towards which much of the rhetorical scholarship I’ve read this semester seems to be h...
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