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Environmental ArgumentationEdited by Marcin Lewiński and Mehmet Ali Üzelgün
[Journal of Argumentation in Context 8:1] 2019
► pp. 12–39
Environmental manifestoes
Argumentative strategies in the Ecomodernist Manifesto
Soledade Rodrigues | ArgLab, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Marcin Lewiński | ArgLab, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Mehmet Ali Üzelgün | ArgLab, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
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.
Keywords: argumentative genre, argument schemes, arguments from values, dissociation, ecomodernism, environmental values, environmental rhetoric, hierarchies of values, polylogue
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Manifesto as an argumentative genre
- 3.The context of environmental debates: From a false dichotomy to a polylogue
- 4.Case study: An Ecomodernist Manifesto
- 4.1The Ecomodernist Manifesto
- 4.2The decoupling argument
- 4.3Practical argumentation
- 4.3.1Circumstances
- 4.3.2Goals and means
- 4.3.3Values
- 4.3.4The complex practical argument
- 5.Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
-
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Published online: 14 February 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/jaic.18036.rod
https://doi.org/10.1075/jaic.18036.rod
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