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- Title
The Rhetoric of Reason: Language in Benjamin Fondane.
- Authors
Dickow, Alexander
- Abstract
Lev Shestov considers all discourse rhetorical. His work denounces rationalist discourse as an imposture that denies its own appeal to irrational impulses. Fondane's poetry betrays the same consciousness of rhetoric: while it does not have a persuasive function per se, it involves circuits of address and oratorical concerns. In Fondane, there is a subjectivist tendency at work: selfhood can never be set aside. Fondane locates the self and the passions at the heart of all speech, denouncing philosophy's pretensions to dispassionate, objective, "rational" discourse.
- Subjects
RHETORIC; LANGUAGE &; languages; CONSCIOUSNESS; DISCOURSE; IMPOSTORS &; imposture
- Publication
MLN, 2023, Vol 138, Issue 4, p1288
- ISSN
0026-7910
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/mln.2023.a920091