Rereading Aristotle's Rhetoric

Edited by Alan G. Gross and Arthur E. Walzer

 

Available March 2008

Cloth, 0-8093-2848-8
978-0-8093-2848-2, $30.00
152 pages, 6 x 9, 1 Illus.
Rhetoric

 

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Exploring Aristotle’s Rhetoric and its influence on rhetorical theory
 
In this collection, scholars in communication, rhetoric and composition, and philosophy seek to “reread” Aristotle’s Rhetoric from a purely rhetorical perspective. These contributors find the Rhetoric so important that a core tenet in this book is that “all subsequent rhetorical theory is but a series of responses to issues raised by the central work.”
The essays reflect on questions basic to rhetoric as a humanistic discipline. Some explore the ways in which the Rhetoric explicates the nature of the art of rhetoric, noting that on this issue, the tensions within the Rhetoric often provide a direct passageway into our own conflicts.

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Contributors:

Jeanne Fahnestock,

Thomas B. Farrell,

Robert N. Gaines,

Eugene Garver,

Lawrence D. Green,

Alan G. Gross,

Carolyn R. Miller,

Jeffrey Walker,

Arthur E. Walzer,

Barbara Warnick 

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Arthur E. Walzer is a professor in writing studies at the University of Minnesota.  He is the author of George Campbell: Rhetoric in the Age of Enlightenment and co-editor of The Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition.