Edwin Benjamin Black | |
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Born | October 26, 1929 |
Died | January 13, 2007 | (aged 77)
Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | Rhetorician, university professor |
Known for | Rhetorical criticism |
Edwin Benjamin Black (October 26, 1929 – January 13, 2007) was one of the leading scholars of rhetorical criticism. He criticized "Neo-Aristotelianism" for its lacking a larger historical, social, political, and cultural understanding of the text and for its concentrating only on certain limited methods and aspects, such as the Aristotelian modes of rhetoric: ethos, pathos, and logos. He urged critics to analyze both the motives and goals within situated cultural norms and ideologies.[2]