In:
Philosophy & Rhetoric, The Pennsylvania State University Press, Vol. 55, No. 2 ( 2022-06-01), p. 127-151
Abstract:
Assuming that withdrawal is ontological, no method of inquiry will breach the “essence” of an object. As such, this article raises a question of onto-epistemological access to complicate the development of recent rhetorical theories and rhetorical method/ologies informed by object-oriented ontologies and new materialisms. This article wonders about the drive to know and to feel forwarded in these rhetorical method/ologies without discussing how things hide from other things and from themselves, how things elude critics, and how scholars access others through ethnographic and embodied methodologies. Explicating epistemist and anti-epistemist approaches to the question of onto-epistemological access, this article makes a modest proposal for rhetoric scholars to conjure rhetorics of unavailable diversities to remake the gap between knowledge and reality again and again.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0031-8213
,
1527-2079
DOI:
10.5325/philrhet.55.2.0127
Language:
English
Publisher:
The Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication Date:
2022
SSG:
5,1
SSG:
7,11
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