1st Edition

Rhetorical Argumentation and Extremism

Edited By Christopher W. Tindale Copyright 2027
208 Pages
by Routledge

Rhetorical Argumentation and Extremism explores the role indirect argumentation plays, and has played, in changing societies by bringing positions previously regarded as extremist into the status quo.   After building the theoretical foundations of the project, the concept of extremism is employed as an issue of wide interest that then serves as a vehicle to illustrate the claims about... Read more

Introduction, Christopher W. Tindale Part 1. Theory 1. Defining Extremism, Hareim Hassan, Léa Farine, Nick Kinnish, Daniel Mejía, and Christopher W. Tindale; 2. Argumentation Theories, Christopher W. Tindale, Hareim Hassan, Nick Kinnish, Daniel Mejía, and Léa Farine; 3. The Rhetorical Perspective on Argumentation, Christopher W. Tindale, Jianfeng Wang, Hareim Hassan, Nick Kinnish, and Daniel Mejía Part 2. Cases 4. A Modifying View: The Case of Nellie McClung, Christopher W. Tindale, Hareim Hassan, Nick Kinnish, Daniel Mejía, and Jianfeng Wang; 5. Argumentative Use of Slogans: The Case of the Egypt Uprising, Hareim Hassan, Nick Kinnish, Daniel Mejía, Christopher W. Tindale, and Jianfeng Wang; 6. Occupy Wall Street and Accusation: Failed Extremist Argumentation, Nick Kinnish, Hareim Hassan, Daniel Mejía, Christopher W. Tindale, and Jianfeng Wang; 7. The Rhetoric of Election Controversy, Jianfeng Wang, Christopher W. Tindale, Hareim Hassan, Nick Kinnish, and Daniel Mejía; 8. Changing Consciousness on Climate Change, Daniel Mejía, Hareim Hassan, Nick Kinnish, Christopher W. Tindale, and Jianfeng Wang Part 3. Developments 9. Ethos, Collective Ethos and Trust, Jianfeng Wang, Nick Kinnish, Hareim Hassan, Daniel Mejía, and Christopher W. Tindale; 10. Argumentative Strategies of Extremism, Christopher W. Tindale, Daniel Mejía, Hareim Hassan, Nick Kinnish, and Jianfeng Wang; Glossary, Ruairi Porcellini; Index

Biography

Christopher W. Tindale is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Windsor, Canada, and co-editor of the journal Informal Logic. Author of many papers in argumentation theory, and recent books include Plato’s Reasons: Logician, Rhetorician, Dialectician (2023), How We Argue (Routledge 2022) and The Anthropology of Argument (Routledge 2021).