Metanoia: Rhetoric, Authenticity, and the Transformation of the Self - Brossura

Ellwanger, Adam

 
9780271085937: Metanoia: Rhetoric, Authenticity, and the Transformation of the Self
Brossura
ISBN 10: 0271085932 ISBN 13: 9780271085937
Casa editrice: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022

Sinossi

Western culture is in a moment when wholly new kinds of personal transformations are possible, but authentic transformation requires both personal testimony and public recognition. In this book, Adam Ellwanger takes a distinctly rhetorical approach to analyzing how the personal and the public relate to an individual’s transformation and develops a new vocabulary that enables a critical assessment of the concept of authenticity.

The concept of metanoia is central to this project. Charting the history of metanoia from its original use in the classical tradition to its adoption by early Christians as a term for religious conversion, Ellwanger shows that metanoia involves a change within a person that results in a truer version of him- or herself―a change in character or ethos. He then applies this theory to our contemporary moment, finding that metanoia provides unique insight into modern forms of self-transformation. Drawing on ancient and medieval sources, including Thucydides, Plato, Paul the Apostle, and Augustine, as well as contemporary discourses of self-transformation, such as the public testimonies of Caitlyn Jenner and Rachel Dolezal, Ellwanger elucidates the role of language in signifying and authenticating identity.

Timely and original, Ellwanger’s study formulates a transhistorical theory of personal transformation that will be of interest to scholars working in social theory, philosophy, rhetoric, and the history of Christianity.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Adam Ellwanger is Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston-Downtown.

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Editore
Pennsylvania State University Press
Data di pubblicazione
2022
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0271085932
ISBN 13 
9780271085937
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
216
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

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9780271085920: Metanoia: Rhetoric, Authenticity, and the Transformation of the Self

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ISBN 10:  0271085924 ISBN 13:  9780271085920
Casa editrice: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, 2020
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