Edwin Black (rhetorician)

Edwin Benjamin Black
BornOctober 26, 1929
DiedJanuary 13, 2007(2007-01-13) (aged 77)
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Rhetorician, university professor
Known forRhetorical 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]

  1. ^ Lucas, Stephen E.; C. David Mortensen; Susan Zaeske (7 May 2007). "MEMORIAL RESOLUTION OF THE FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON ON THE DEATH OF PROFESSOR EMERITUS EDWIN BLACK" (PDF). University of Wisconsin Madison. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 December 2011. Retrieved 27 July 2013.
  2. ^ Jennifer Dewinter, A Bibliographic Synthesis of Rhetorical Criticism, Western Speech 29, no. 4: 227-231.