John Arthos

Arts and Humanities · Indiana University

Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity Rhetoric and Communication Studies Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism Historical and Literary Studies Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy

Publications

116

Citations

449

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

Publishing since 1965

Research summary

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John Arthos studies how we interpret texts and make meaning, working at the intersection of hermeneutics (the theory of interpretation) and rhetoric (the study of persuasion and communication). His work engages closely with philosophers such as Gadamer and Ricoeur, and also examines literary works ranging from Dante and Milton to eighteenth-century poetry. He additionally writes on the role of language in describing nature and on the aims of liberal arts education.

Hermeneutics and interpretation theoryRhetoric and communication studiesPhenomenology and continental philosophyLiterary criticism and poetryLanguage of natural description and science

Publication activity has been uneven over the past decade, with notable bursts in 2020 and 2024 and quieter years in between, averaging around 1.4 publications per year over the last five years.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026

Publication cadence

Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.4/year recently

Recent publications

A Hermeneutics for the Human Barnyard: The Nascent Political Radicality of Gadamer’s Theory of Experience
Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology · 2025
Dante, Michelangelo and Milton
2024
Longinus and the Sublime
2024
The Romantic Scene
2024
On the Poetry of Spenser and the Form of Romances
2024
You Can’t Get There from Here: The Flaw in Humboldt’s Dream of a Liberal Arts Research University
2024
Escaping the Prison House of Effects: The Persistence of an Anachronism in Rhetoric Studies
Rhetoric Society Quarterly · 2023
The paradigmatic interpenetration of hermeneutics and rhetoric
2021
The Application of Natural History to Poetry
2020
The Interchange of Scientific Language and Poetic Diction
2020
The Formation of a Scientific Language for Natural Description
2020
Stability and Change in the Language of Natural Philosophy
2020
The Elements of Stock Diction
2020
Gadamer's Distance and Ricoer's Belonging
2020
The Language of Natural Description in Eighteenth-Century Poetry
2020

Publishes in

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication×2
Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology×2
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc eBooks×1
Exemplaria×1
Bloomsbury Academic eBooks×1

This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 11, 2026.

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