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Unruly Examples: On the Rhetoric of Exemplarity

Stanford University Press (1995)

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  1. Exemplarity and Encyclopedism at the Tomb of Eurysaces.Nathaniel B. Jones - 2018 - Classical Antiquity 37 (1):63-107.
    Roman writing of the late Republic and early Empire, especially historiography, is filled with exempla, stories of the past meant to serve as models for contemporary and future behavior. This period also witnessed the rise of an encyclopedic mode of composition among Latin authors, which purported to collect and organize the totality of knowledge in a given field. The following essay proposes that exemplarity and encyclopedism were not just literary devices, but deep organizational principles throughout Roman culture. It seeks to (...)
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  • The perfect story: Anecdote and exemplarity in Linnaeus and Blumenberg.Paul Fleming - 2011 - Thesis Eleven 104 (1):72-86.
    Hans Blumenberg’s work is characterized by a seemingly insatiable predilection for anecdotes — about Thales and Pyrrhus, Goethe and Fontane, Husserl and Wittgenstein, Polgar and Jünger. This essay explores the theoretical status of anecdotes by juxtaposing Carl Linnaeus’s Nemesis Divina with Blumenberg’s Care Crosses the River, both read alongside Aristotle’s notion of exemplarity and Joel Fineman’s delineation of the anecdote as the literary-historical form for expressing contingency. As a mode of thought at the nexus of literature and experience, anecdotes immediately (...)
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  • More dialectical than the dialectic: Exemplarity in Theodor W. Adorno’s The Essay as Form.Thorn-R. Kray - 2018 - Thesis Eleven 144 (1):30-45.
    This essay presents a careful interpretation of Adorno’s classical text The Essay as Form, published in 1958 as the introduction to his Notes on Literature. Since it thickly condenses many of Adorno’s general views, the Essay poses great hermeneutic challenges to readers. The paper, first, elaborates on the essay more broadly as a genre and identifies a spectrum between science and art each individual essay draws from to forge its particular hybridity. Second, the example is discussed as an epistemologically potent (...)
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