Responding to skeptics within higher education and critics without,
James Crosswhite argues powerfully that the core of a college
education should be learning to write a reasoned argument. A
trained philosopher and director of a university-wide composition
program, Crosswhite challenges his readers - teachers of writing
and communication, philosophers, critical theorists, and
educational administrators - to reestablish the traditional role of
rhetoric in education. To those who have lost faith in the
abilities of people to reach reasoned mutual agreements, and to
others who have attacked the right-or-wrong model of formal logic,
this book offers the reminder that the rhetorical tradition has
always viewed argumentation as a dialogue, a response to changing
situations, an exchange of persuading, listening, and
understanding. Crosswhite's aim is to give new purpose to writing
instruction and to students' writing, to reinvest both with the
deep ethical interests of the rhetorical tradition. In laying out
the elements of argumentation, for example, he shows that claiming,
questioning, and giving reasons are not simple elements of formal
logic, but communicative acts with complicated ethical features.
Students must learn not only how to construct an argument, but the
purposes, responsibilities, and consequences of engaging in one.
Crosswhite supports his aims through a rhetorical reconstruction of
reason, offering new interpretations of Plato, Aristotle, and of
the concepts of reflection and dialogue from early modernity
through Hegel to Gadamer. And, in conclusion, he ties these
theoretical and historical underpinnings to current problems of
higher education, the definition of the liberalarts, and,
especially, the teaching of written communication.
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