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Kant and the Promise of Rhetoric (Paperback)
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Kant and the Promise of Rhetoric (Paperback)
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Immanuel Kant is rarely connected to rhetoric by those who study
philosophy or the rhetorical tradition. If anything, Kant is said
to see rhetoric as mere manipulation and as not worthy of
attention. In Kant and the Promise of Rhetoric, Scott Stroud
presents a first-of-its-kind reappraisal of Kant and the role he
gives rhetorical practices in his philosophy. By examining the
range of terms that Kant employs to discuss various forms of
communication, Stroud argues that the general thesis that Kant
disparaged rhetoric is untenable. Instead, he offers a more nuanced
view of Kant on rhetoric and its relation to moral cultivation. For
Kant, certain rhetorical practices in education, religious
settings, and public argument become vital tools to move humans
toward moral improvement without infringing on their individual
autonomy. Through the use of rhetorical means such as examples,
religious narratives, symbols, group prayer, and fallibilistic
public argument, individuals can persuade other agents to move
toward more cultivated states of inner and outer autonomy. For the
Kant recovered in this book, rhetoric becomes another part of human
activity that can be animated by the value of humanity, and it can
serve as a powerful tool to convince agents to embark on the
arduous task of moral self-cultivation.
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