Rhetoric and Anti-Semitism

Autor/in	Lengbeyer, Lawrence A.
Titel	Rhetoric and Anti-Semitism
Quelle	In: Academic Questions, 17 (2004) 2, S.22-32 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0895-4852
DOI	10.1007/s12129-004-1004-7
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Foreign Countries; Rhetoric; Jews; Social Discrimination; Scholarship; Israel + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Rhetorik; Jew; Jude; Jüdin; Juden; Soziale Benachteiligung; Soziale Schließung; Scholarships; Stipendium
Abstract	Judith Butler is a renowned and prolific scholar who is both the Maxine Elliot Professor in Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley and the Hannah Arendt Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School. In a substantial lead essay in the "London Review of Books," she examines whether charges of anti-Semitism are appropriately lodged against those whose expressive acts target the state of Israel and its policies. Because Judith Butler holds endowed chairs in rhetoric and philosophy, her pronouncements might be expected to convey some important lessons. Lawrence A. Lengbeyer is disappointed to find, however, that in her deconstruction of remarks on bigotry by Harvard president Lawrence Summers, Butler commits at least four elementary fallacies: Straw Man, Slippery Slope, Equivocation, and False Dilemma. Butler's article displays a celebrated rhetorician's inability to extract the most obvious, accessible meaning from a not terribly sophisticated text, as well as a supposed philosopher's inability to avoid basic missteps of logic. (Contains 5 notes.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10