03767nam a22006135i 4500 978-3-031-68970-3 DE-He213 20251030113235.0 cr nn 008mamaa 241019s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031689703 978-3-031-68970-3 10.1007/978-3-031-68970-3 doi JA85-85.2 JPH bicssc GTC bicssc POL000000 bisacsh JPH thema GTC thema Kock, Christian. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 86267 A Rhetoric of Aesthetic Power [electronic resource] : Moving Forms / by Christian Kock. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. X, 386 p. 41 illus., 2 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Rhetoric, Politics and Society, 2947-5155 Chapter One: What Moves Us -- Chapter Two: A Rhetorical Aesthetics -- Chapter Three: Affective Attractions -- Chapter Four: Structural Attractions -- Chapter Five: Semiotic Attractions. This book offers a theory of those formal properties of art that are apt to afford strong aesthetic experience – a project resembling Aristotle’s in the Poetics, where he analysed structures in tragedies that condition the “peculiar pleasure” of tragedy. However, the book’s scope cuts across all genres of literature and also includes classical music – the formal art par excellence. Drawing on a wide array of recent theoretical work and empirical evidence, the book closely analyses dozens of examples of both art forms. Besides Aristotle, major inspiration comes from two modern master thinkers: the linguist Roman Jakobson, who defined the “poetic function” of language, and the rhetorician Kenneth Burke, who proposed a “psychological” concept of form. Throughout, the book argues for aesthetic experience as an end in itself and a component of quality of life, one to which everyone should have access – rather than just a means to other ends. Christian Kock is Emeritus Professor at the University of Copenhagen. Formerly an Associate Professor of English Literature and a Visiting Professor at Indiana University, he was Professor of Rhetoric from 1997 to 2018. He still publishes extensively, mainly on argumentation and political debate, as well as on the aesthetics of literature and classical music. . Communication in politics. 65259 Political science. 58714 Political science Study and teaching. 83389 Political sociology. 57999 World politics. 58105 Political Communication. 67745 Political Theory. 70609 Political Education. 83391 Political Sociology. 57999 Political History. 67817 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031689697 Printed edition: 9783031689710 Printed edition: 9783031689727 Rhetoric, Politics and Society, 2947-5155 74322 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68970-3 ZDB-2-POS ZDB-2-SXPI 64318 64318