Erik Bengtson

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/