09 Feb
10 Feb

Small Persuasive Forms: On the Rhetoric of the Sentence

Date:

9 February 2026 - 10 February 2026

Location:

Center for Advanced Studies Seestr. 13 80802 Munich

Workshop organized by Prof. Dr. Carlos Spoerhase (LMU) and Prof. Dr. Juliane Vogel (Konstanz).

The sentence as a philosophical and literary form is currently experiencing a renaissance. But what makes the sentence so special as a small form? Can it indeed be considered as a “miniaturized form” that enables thinking on a small scale? The sentence reveals itself not only as a grammatical and syntactical unit, a vehicle for cognitive acts, a phenomenon of written media – shaped by punctuation – or a logical form, but also as a performative speech act in politics, theology, law, and administration, and thus as a carrier of rhetorical energeia.

Participants include: Rüdiger Campe (Yale), Christian Benne (Kopenhagen), Jeff Dolven (Princeton), Elisabetta Mengaldo (Padua), Winfried Menninghaus (Frankfurt a.M.), Christoph Möllers (HU Berlin), Glenn W. Most (Pisa/Chicago), Inka Mülder-Bach (LMU), Kathryn Murphy (Oxford), Gilles Philippe (Lausanne), Johanna Schumm (LMU), Antje Wessels (Leiden), Zhiyi Yang (Frankfurt a.M.).

The workshop is part of the CAS Research Focus “Scales”/”Maßstäbe”.

Registration

Registration is required for participation. If you are interested in our event, please contact us: info@cas.lmu.de