Erik Bengtson
Researcher at Institutionen för litteraturvetenskap och retorik
- E-mail:
- erik.bengtson@littvet.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3 P
- Postal address:
- Box 632
751 26 UPPSALA
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- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-9427-4912
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Short presentation
Erik Bengtson is a scholar of rhetoric at Uppsala University, Sweden. He has published on the epistemology of rhetoric, rhetorical argumentation theory, and semiotics. Later, his research focus has shifted towards exploring the relations between capitalism and climate transition rhetoric.
For an open-access monograph on corporate green rhetoric, see:
The Virtues of Green Marketing (Palgrave Macmillan)
Biography
- Senior lecturer in rhetoric, Södertörn university, 2020-
- Researcher in climate transition rhetoric, Uppsala university, 2019-
- Doctor of rhetoric, Uppsala university, 2019.
- Master of rhetoric, Södertörn university, 2008.
- Lecturer in rhetoric, Södertörn university, 2009-2011.
- Political secretary, The Government offices of Sweden, 2006-2009.
Research
General Research Interests
- Corporate rhetoric
- Sustainability & rhetoric
- Semiotics
- Political rhetoric,
- Rhetorical argumentation theory
- Ideology/myth/doxa,
- Ancient Greek rhetoric
- History of concepts.
Specific Research Interests
- Green marketing
- Climate transition rhetoric
- Ernst Cassirer and his philosophy of symbolic forms,
- Roland Barthes and his thinking on semiotics,
- Swedish political rhetoric,
- Climate change debate,
- Plato's, Aristotle's and Isocrates' discussions of rhetoric,
- The contemporary and historical uses and meanings of the concept ”doxa”,
Media
Time & Truth with Frida Buhre & Erik Bengtson (Sweden)
The first of a two-part interview with Dr. Frida Buhre and Dr. Erik Bengtson, both scholars at Uppsala University in Sweden. They tackle rhetoric’s relationship with two big ideas: time and truth.
https://globalrhetorics.com/2020/05/22/time-truth-buhre-bengtson/
Publications
Recent publications
- The Epistemology of Rhetoric (2024)
- Rhetoric of remembrance/oblivion (2024)
- The Virtues of Green Marketing (2023)
- Sanctification as Argumentation (2022)
- Shadows in the Cave (2022)
All publications
Articles
- Rhetoric of remembrance/oblivion (2024)
- Greenwashing och grön marknadsföring (2022)
- A Philosophical-Anthropological Case for Cassirer in Rhetoric (2017)
- Den mytiska argumentationsbasen (2012)
Books
- The Epistemology of Rhetoric (2024)
- The Virtues of Green Marketing (2023)
- Shadows in the Cave (2022)
- The Epistemology of Rhetoric (2019)
- Förledd och förtjust (2015)