Beskrivning

Shadows in the Cave. Revisiting Rosengren’s Doxology

Erik Bengtson, Karl Ekeman, Mirey Gorgis, Louise Schou Therkildsen & Alexander Stagnell (eds.)

 

Caves, images, and symbols are recurring topics in the work of Mats Rosengren, from his reading of Plato in his dissertation Psychagōgia – Konsten att leda själar, to his investigation of the world of paleolithic cave art in Cave Art, Perception and Knowledge.

While other philosophers might have descended into the cave with the aim of guiding visitors back up into the blinding light of eternal truths, Rosengren seems to be at home in the underworld. Instead of dismissing the paintings that adorn its walls as merely shadowy copies or distorted images, or claiming that the truth of these pictures is readily available to us, Mats Rosengren invites any traveler joining him to understand them as different forms of sensemaking, forms which at first might appear foreign, but that, upon closer inspection, reveal themselves in all their complexity.

In this volume, the contributors take on some of the key themes found in Rosengren’s work, mirroring the stylistic, generic, and topical range that characterizes it. The volume is titled “Shadows in the Cave”, signaling a focus not on eternal truth, but – alluding to Plato – on the shadowplay of our human caves.

 

Content

 

Prolog: Besöket i Tykarpsgrottan              7

Jesper Svenbro

Introduction  9

Erik Bengtson, Karl Ekeman, Mirey Gorgis, Louise Schou Therkildsen, & Alexander Stagnell

 

Part I: Essays to Mats         17

Lukianos Retorikprofessorn                      19

Översättning, noter och bakgrund av Dimitrios Iordanoglou

Cave Lessons                       31

Ingmar Meland

Law and literature as symbolic forms: bearing witness of contemporary terrorist attacks        41

Ingvild Folkvord & Jean Lassègue

Översättarens uteblivna förord                49

Ulrika Björk

Idioten: Innleiande tankar om Descartes’ essayistikk    53

Hans Marius Hansteen

Taubenschach/For Apollo Loxias. A Post-Truth Approach to Rhetorical Criticism              63

Otto Fischer

The Experience Economy: A Defense of the Epistemic Commons      73

Sharon Rider

Retoriken som endoxologi                        85

Janne Lindqvist

Daugthers in the Cave         100

Elsa Rosengren & Mathilda Rosengren

 

Part II: Studies in Doxa       105

The Doxic Status of Atmospheres: Mats Rosengren’s Doxology and New Phenomenology                      107

Ola Sigurdson

 

Doxa and Dissent: Two Examples of Connected Criticism in Politics and the Entertainment Industry                     123

Lisa S. Villadsen

 

Sanctification as Argumentation: What Scholars of Rhetoric can Learn from Ernst Cassirer’s Theory of Myth            141

Erik Bengtson

 

Chaos, Magma, and Pregnance: Exploring Symbolic Communication in Institutional Art Forms           161

Wincharles Coker

 

Solecism eller barbarism? ’Radikalhögern’ som fara     177

Karl Ekeman

 

Åsiktskorridoren: historien om ett laddat ord                201

Jon Viklund

 

Heidegger‘s “fork”: Doxa and the Apophatic Sacrifice of Passivity    223

Patrik Mehrens

 

Rhetorical Working Through as Praxis, Process, and Philosophy        241

Jens E. Kjeldsen

 

Mjuk styrning och en modern agora        263

Gunilla Almström Persson

 

Autonomous Politics: Imaginary and Imagination in Doxology           277

Alexander Stagnell

 

 

Om författarna  296

Tabula Gratulatoria  300

 

Om boken

Erik Bengtson, Karl Ekeman, Mirey Gorgis, Louise Schou Therkildsen, & Alexander Stagnell (eds.): “Shadows in the Cave. Revisiting Rosengren’s Doxology”
Språk: Engelska & svenska
304 sidor
ISBN 978-87-91986-16-1 / Ebog 978-87-91986-17-8
1. udg, Retorikforlaget 2022
SEK 310:- plus porto  – eBok 90:-.

https://www.doi.org/10.52610/LVDW7009