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This work brings together the pivotal, scholarly essays responsible
for the present resurgence in rhetorical studies. Assembled by one
of the most respected senior scholars in the field of rhetoric, the
essays chart a course from tradition-based theory of civic rhetoric
to ongoing issues of figuration, power, and gender. Together with a
lucid introductory essay, these studies help to integrate the
still-volatile questions at the core of humanities scholarship in
rhetoric. The introductory student as well as the seasoned scholar
will gain familiarity and footing in this oldest--and still
new--liberal art.
Rhetoric is widely regarded by both its detractors and advocates as
a kind of antithesis to reason. In this book Thomas B. Farrell
restores rhetoric as an art of practical reason and enlightened
civic participation, grounding it in its classical
tradition-particularly in the rhetoric of Aristotle. And, because
prevailing modernist world views bear principal responsibility for
the disparagement of rhetorical tradition, Farrell also offers a
critique of the dominant currents of modern humanist thought.
Farrell argues that rhetoric is not antithetical to reason but is a
manner of posing and answering questions that is distinct from the
approaches of analytic and dialectical reason. He develops this
position in a number of ways: through a series of bold
reinterpretations of Aristotle's Rhetoric; through a detailed
appraisal of traditional rhetorical concepts as seen in modern
texts from the Army-McCarthy hearings to Edward Kennedy's memorial
for his brother, Mario Cuomo's address on abortion, Betty Friedan's
Feminine Mystique, and Vaclav Havel's inaugural address; and
through a fresh appraisal of theories on the character of language
and discourse found in contemporary philosophy, literary criticism,
anthropology, deconstructionism, Marxism, and especially in
Habermas's critical theory of communicative action.
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