Edwin Black (rhetorician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetEdwin Black (rhetorician)
American academic
Date of Birth: 26-Oct-1929
Place of Birth: Houston, Texas, United States
Date of Death: 13-Jan-2007
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Edwin Black (rhetorician)
- 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.
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