Contribution to Book
Chanting the Supreme Word of Information: Redundant!? Sacred?!
Responding to the Sacred: An Inquiry into the Limits of Rhetotric
(2021)
Abstract
Beyond inner or outer, activist, poet, scholar and supramental jnani yogi Aurobindo Ghose points to and spoke from a higher order of abstraction than Aristotle when the latter asks rhetors to “observe in any given case the available means of persuasion” (The Rhetoric). Aristotle – or the crowd of students who likely prepared The Rhetoric – asks us to look outward in our observation, gathering data, hypotheses about the audience and the kinds of arguments they might love, e.g. pathos appeals that may well appeal. Aurobindo instead asks us to turn our consciousness back on itself, observing the domain he dubbed the “supramental” - where there is only a knowing without a knower.
Keywords
- sacred,
- rhetoric,
- involution,
- chanting
Disciplines
Publication Date
2021
Editor
Michael Bernard-Donals & Kyle Jensen
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Citation Information
Trey Conner and Richard Doyle. "Chanting the Supreme Word of Information: Redundant!? Sacred?!" Responding to the Sacred: An Inquiry into the Limits of Rhetotric (2021) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/trey-conner/8/