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The Invocative Turn

The Invocative Turn Intensification: The intensification of a text’s language implies that its meaning becomes more universal, more general. The meaning of words and phrases is universalized. When concrete things are named in text in which words are intensified, a...

The Provocative Turn

The Provocative Turn Answerability: articulate the kind of ethical predicaments that are suggested in the study and what are the active normative responses (advice, policies, tactful practices, etc.). When a person is addressed by an other then he or she can turn away...

The Revocative Turn

The Revocative Turn Lived-throughness: Through anecdote and imagery, bring experience vividly into presence, making it immedately or unreflectively recongizable. The term “revoke” means to recall, to bring back, to rescind. Revoking our words means to go back on our...

The Vocative Turn

The Vocative Turn Tone: Practise a perceptive address to living meaning in the act of writing. The vocative method means that we need to address and that we need to be open to be addressed. The term “vocative” derives from vocare, to call; and from the root “voice”....

Vocatio

Vocatio The aim of the vocatio is to let things “speak” or be “heard” by bringing them into nearness through the vocative power of language. The vocatio has to do with the recognition that a text can “speak” to us, that we may know ourselves addressed by it. There...