The Deep Ecology of Rhetoric in Mencius and Aristotle: A Somatic Guide

by Douglas Robinson

Book Overview

Mencius (385-303/302 BCE) and Aristotle (384-322 BCE) were contemporaries, but are often understood to represent opposite ends of the philosophical spectrum. Mencius is associated with the ecological, emergent, flowing, and connected; Artistotle with the rational, static, abstract, and binary. Douglas Robinson argues that in their conceptions of rhetoric, at least, Mencius and Aristotle are much more similar than different: both are powerfully socio-ecological,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438461070
• ISBN13: 9781438461076
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 337 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.1"