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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Forchtner, Bernhard

Titel

The Rhetoric of Judge-Penitence

Ist Teil von

• Lessons from the Past?, 2016, p.151-186

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The fourth rhetoric of learning conceptualised by Forchtner is the rhetoric of judge-penitence. This rhetoric thematises our past wrongdoing as being successfully ‘worked through’ while they, today, have not learnt the lesson and commit wrongdoing. The subject of such a plot grammar is a condescending teacher who, instead of also questioning her- or himself, has largely removed the self-critical element while lecturing allegedly morally inferior others. This rhetoric is emplotted in a comic mode which is not simply about laughter but about a perception of having overcome division, about rebirth and enabling a higher level of conscience and, subsequently, the pleasure of a happy ending.