Being-Moved: Rhetoric as the Art of Listening

If rhetoric is the art of speaking, who is listening? In Being—Moved, Daniel M. Gross provides an answer, showing when and where the art of speaking parted ways with the art of listening – and what happens when they intersect once again. Much in the history of rhetoric must be rethought along the way. And much of this rethinking pivots around Martin Heidegger’s early lectures on Aristotle’s Rhetoric where his famous topic, Being, gives way to being—moved. The results, Gross goes on to show,...