Ronald Soetaert

Kris Rutten

Stefaan Blancke

Edited by Kris Rutten, Stefaan Blancke, and Ronald Soetaert, Perspectives on Science and Culture explores the intersection between scientific understanding and cultural representation from an interdisciplinary perspective. Contributors to the volume analyze representations of science and scientific discourse from the perspectives of rhetorical criticism, comparative cultural studies, narratology, educational studies, discourse analysis, naturalized epistemology, and the cognitive sciences. The main objective of the volume is to explore how particular cognitive predispositions and cultural representations both shape and distort the public debate about scientific controversies, the teaching and learning of science, and the development of science itself. The theoretical background of the articles in the volume integrates C. P. Snow's concept of the two cultures (science and the humanities) and Jerome Bruner's confrontation between narrative and logico-scientific modes of thinking (i.e., the cognitive and the evolutionary approaches to human cognition).

Perspectives on Science and Culture

Hilde Van Belle

Paul Gillaerts

Dorien Van De Mieroop

Baldwin Van Gorp

In this volume on political argumentation, the study of argument takes place within a rhetorical framework. As such, it is a contribution to the study of argumentation-in-context with an explicit rhetorical approach. Rather than focusing on the poor quality of political participation and political understanding by citizens, this volume explores how the study of rhetoric, both as an academic discipline and as a political practice, stands in a unique position to critically engage with a ‘contextualized’ understanding of politics and civic engagement. Many contributions in this volume confront classical rhetorical concepts and theories with current political developments such as globalization and multiculturalism and the emergence of new democracies. Others focus explicitly on deliberative rhetoric in the political realm, or undertake a critical analysis of political texts and public events in order to explore what this can imply for the development of a ‘critical’ citizenship.

New essays on deliberative rhetoric

Let's talk politics

Hilde van Belle

P. Gillaerts

Baldwin van Gorp

Dorien van de Mieroop

This collection presents work that examines how tradition and renewal relate in contemporary rhetoric. Discussing new theoretical perspectives and proposing different rhetorical analyses of actual topics, the contributors focus specifically on the issue of new media discourse and visual rhetoric as it appears in pictures, graphics, cartoons, documentaries, and videos.“This collection of papers makes a significant contribution to the field of rhetoric and the ways in which it needs to develop to help us understand the arguments of today.”—Leo Groarke, University of Windsor

Verbal and Visual Rhetoric in a Media World

Kris Rutten

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