Environmental manifestoes: Argumentative strategies in the Ecomodernist Manifesto

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Abstract

In this paper, we analyze the argumentative strategies deployed in the Ecomodernist Manifesto, published in 2015 by a group of leading environmental thinkers. We draw on pragma-dialectics and Perelman's rhetoric to characterize manifesto as a genre of practical argumentation. Our goal is to explore the relation of manifesto as a discursive genre to the argumentative structures and techniques used in the Ecomodernist Manifesto. We therefore take into scrutiny the elements of practical argumentation employed in the manifesto and describe the polylogical strategies of dissociation in negotiating the ecological value of nature and the modernist value of progress.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)12-39
Number of pages28
JournalJournal of Argumentation in Context
Volume8
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2019

Keywords

  • Argument schemes
  • Argumentative genre
  • Arguments from values
  • Dissociation
  • Ecomodernism
  • Environmental rhetoric
  • Environmental values
  • Hierarchies of values
  • Polylogue

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