Metanoia

Rhetoric, Authenticity, and the Transformation of the Self

Metanoia
Adam Ellwanger, Pat J Gehrke
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h229 x 152mm - 216pg
18 Apr 2022 US
9780271085937
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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.
"Ellwanger offers an original and provocative contribution to the study of metanoia that extends our understanding of the relation between epistrophe and metanoia significantly and places metanoia in productive tension with the concept of ethos. Ellwanger is at his very best in his practice of ' paratactical rhetorical analysis,' placing conceptions of metanoia side by side to facilitate a clearer understanding of personal transformation, and he is a master of creating a narrative of his analysis. "-Lisa Storm Villadsen, coeditor of Contemporary Rhetorical Citizenship
Adam Ellwanger is Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston-Downtown.
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ISBN-13: 9780271085937
Published: 18 Apr 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 376g
Pages: 216

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