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Highlights Column




Featured Book Releases:

Radical Atheism and New Spirituality (2011)


Burning Banks
and
Roasting Marshmallows:
The Education of Daniel Marleau
(2009)


Featured Essays:

Choosing a Rhetoric 
of the Enemy: 
Kenneth Burke's Comic Frame, Warrantable Outrage, and the Problem of Scapegoating

Rhetoric Society Quarterly publication (2011)

Demonizing Derrida and Deconstruction 

(Skeptic Magazine publication 2006)




Additional featured reading:


W. B. Macomber's
Love and Culture

A Philosophical commentary inspired by Plato's Symposium

For Table of Contents, further information,
and chapter links click
here




Recommended art:

The Salvador Dali Gallery
Browse a complete collection of Dali's work along with a wealth of information about each work and his life

The Zeugma Mosaics
Beautiful GrecoRoman art saved from a flooded section of the Euphrates River. See the video fly-through at this link for the 14 room Roman villa that housed these amazing mosaics.




 
 
 

 

Essays, Interviews, and Editorials


(2011) Choosing a Rhetoric of the Enemy: Kenneth Burke's Comic Frame, Warrantable Outrage, and the Problem of Scapegoating. Gregory Desilet and Edward C. Appel. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 41, #4.

(2007) Derrida and Nonduality: On the Possible Shortcomings of Nondual Spirituality: Published at the Integral World web site http://www.integralworld (http://www.integralworld.net/index.html?readingroom.html#GDE).

(2007) Misunderstanding Derrida and Postmodernism: Ken Wilber and  "Post-Metaphysics" Integral Spirituality: Published at the Integral World web site http://www.integralworld (http://www.integralworld.net/index.html?readingroom.html#GDE).

(2006) Potential Effects of Violent Video Games: The Wilson Quarterly, Autumn 2006, pp. 9-10.

(2006) Not Necessarily 'Censorship': Withholding of Columbine Tapes Might Be Only Prudent, Legal Way to Proceed. Guest Opinion in The Boulder Daily Camera, Sunday, July 2, page 3E.

(2006) Killers' 'Basement Tapes' Hold Danger. Speakout opinion piece in The Rocky Mountain News, Friday, June 30, page 54A.

(2006) Derrida Forum: Demonizing Derrida and Deconstruction. Skeptic, Vol.12, #2, page 17. (A response to L. Kirk Hagen’s article “The Death of Philosophy,” in Skeptic, Vol. 11, #4, 2005, 18-21).

(2006) Our Faith in Evil Studies Effects of Film Violence. Book Signing to Feature Longmont Author Gregory Desilet. Interview by Valerie Singleton. Longmont Daily Times-Call Day & Night Entertainment Magazine. March 10, page 12.

(2006) Library Marketplace Interview—Self Publish or Perish: How one Author Moved from Self Publishing to the Mainstream. An Interview with Gregory Desilet author of Our Faith in Evil: Melodrama and the Effects of Entertainment Violence and Cult of the Kill: Traditional Metaphysics of Rhetoric, Truth, and Violence in a Postmodern World. Against the Grain: “Linking Publishers, Vendors and Librarians,” Vol. 18, #1, February, 31-39.

(1999) Physics and Language—Science and Rhetoric: Reviewing the Parallel Evolution of Theory on Motion and Meaning in the Aftermath of the Sokal Hoax. The Quarterly Journal of Speech, Vol. 85, No. 4, 339-360. (Chapter Four of Cult of the Kill contains the complete version of this essay. Cult of the Kill is now available as an eBook on Amazon.com here)

(1998) Cult of the Kill: Kenneth Burke, Martin Heidegger, and the Specter of Nazism at the Origin of Rhetoric and Violence. Convention Paper presented at the National Communication Assoc. Conference in New York City. Awarded top competitive paper. (Chapter Three of Cult of the Kill contains the complete version of this essay. Cult of the Kill is now available as an eBook on Amazon.com here)

(1996) Physics of Language: A Study of Parallel Developments of Theory in Physical Science and Language Science. Convention Paper presented at the National Communication Association Conference in San Diego.

(1995) Linguistic Relativity: Comparisons between Jacques Derrida and John Macksoud. Convention Paper presented at the Western Speech Communication Association Conference in Portland, Oregon. (Chapter Five of Cult of the Kill contains the revised version of this essay. Cult of the Kill is now available as an eBook on Amazon.com here)

(1993) A Conversational Analysis of Conversation Analysis: The Practical Uses of Metaphysics. Convention Paper presented at the Speech Communication Association Conference in Miami Beach. Awarded top competitive paper.

(1991) Heidegger and Derrida: The Conflict between Hermeneutics and Deconstruction in the Context of Rhetorical and Communication Theory. The Quarterly Journal of Speech, Vol. 77, No. 2, 152-175. (Chapter Two of Cult of the Kill contains the revised version of this essay. Cult of the Kill is now available as an eBook on Amazon.com here)

(1989) Nietzsche Contra Burke: The Melodrama in Dramatism. The Quarterly Journal of Speech, Vol. 75, No. 1, 65-83. (Chapter One of Cult of the Kill contains the revised version of this essay. Cult of the Kill is now available as an eBook on Amazon.com here)

(1986) Symbolic Action, Drama, and Conflict, With Commentary on the Film Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence. Convention paper presented at the Speech Communication Association Conference in Chicago.

(1984) Burke and Heidegger: Choosing a View of Language. Convention Paper presented at the International Communication Assoc. Conference in San Francisco.

(1982) Singing the Body Electric: The Role of Bioelectricity in Human Health and Sexuality. A REACT Publication in collaboration with The University of the Trees.

(1982) Handbook on Love and Relation. Unpublished book length manuscript examining various philosopher’s views on love and human relations.

(1979) Kenneth Burke’s Dramatism in Perspective. Thesis for the Master of Arts Degree at the University of Colorado, Boulder in the Department of Communication.

(1976) Kenneth Burke’s Cathartic Poetics in Perspective. Convention Paper presented at the Western Speech Communication Association Conference in San Francisco.

(1975) How Phenomenological Method May Be Seen As Rhetorically Based. Convention Paper presented at the Western Speech Communication Association Conference in Seattle.


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