Guide(s) for the Perplexed Science and Literature as Equipment for Living
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Blum, Alan
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York Univ, Fac Arts, N York, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
York Univ, Sch Grad Studies, N York, ON M3J 1P3, CanadaYork Univ, Fac Arts, N York, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
Blum, Alan
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[1] York Univ, Fac Arts, N York, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
[2] York Univ, Sch Grad Studies, N York, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
This article compares science and the novel as different rhetorical strategies for representing relationships to the limits of knowledge and what seems unknown. I draw on Kenneth Burke's (1957) figure of "equipment for living" to revive the question of the value of knowledge and art for life, identifying the comparison between science and the humanities itself as a social phenomenon and focusing on the uses and rhetorical value of such disciplines and of literature for life in a period ruled by concerns for so-called applied knowledge and dreams of its transfer and dissemination. In this way, I try to escape from a notion of rhetoric limited solely to social interaction and the mutual persuasiveness of selves in order to develop, by linking rhetoric to subjectivity, a rhetorical approach to the consciousness of a subject conceived as relating to the limits of what can be known.