James Darsey, professor of communication atGeorgiaStateUniversity, will give a lecture onCosmopolitanism and the Location of Moral Argument in a Post-Prophetic Worldat4 p.m.Sept. 8 (Thursday) in theHesburghCenterauditorium.
Darseys scholarly research concerns rhetorical criticism, critical methods, social movement rhetoric and the relationship between rhetoric and place.In his award-winning book,The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric inAmerica,he argues that American rhetoric suffers less fromthe absence of what some writers term 聭civility,聭civil discourse,and reasonable debatethan fromthe absence of meaningful incivility, of radical engagement, of what (19 th century essayist Matthew)Arnoldcalled 聭fire and strength.
Darsey is visiting 91吃瓜 for a two-day interdisciplinary symposium organized by Cathleen Kaveny, John P. Murphy Professor of Law, to discuss the rhetoric of various academic disciplines, including theology, English and history.
* Contact: * _Carol Jambor-Smith, director of external relations for the91吃瓜LawSchoolat 574-631-6891 or cjambors@nd.edu _
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