The rise of rhetoric and its intersections with contemporary critical thought / Omar Swartz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Swartz, Omar.

Series:

Polemics series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric.

Criticism.

Physical Description:

xiii, 194 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo : Westview Press, 1998.

Contents:

Rhetoric as Culturally Experienced 1

What Is Rhetoric? 5

Effective Versus Ineffective Rhetorical Theory 9

1 The Circumstance Behind the Development of Rhetorical Theory 17

The Need for Historization in the Study of Ideas 18

Exploring the Contradictions in Athenian and American "Democracy" 29

The Political Structure of Ancient Greece 31

Comparison to U.S. Imperialism 38

The Epistemic Function of Rhetoric 40

2 The Beginning of Rhetoric in Ancient Greece 46

Ideas, Representation, and Mythology 46

Rhetoric Comes to Athens 60

Protagoras and Gorgias 70

Influence of the Sophists 81

3 Isocrates 87

Characteristics of Isocrates' Educational and Linguistic Philosophy 89

Pedagogy and Politics 94

Che Guevara, Praxis, and Third World Pan-Nationalism 98

Isocrates' Educational "System," 104

The Writings of Isocrates 107

4 Plato 118

Education and Praxis: From Isocrates to Plato 118

Reification and Foundations in the Dialogues of Plato 121

Richard Weaver and Plato's Objections to the Sophists 132

Plato's Philosophical Views 136

Platonic Versus Rhetorical Analysis 146

5 Aristotle 154

Foucault, Knowledge, and Language 154

Platonic Tendencies in Western Society 156

Introduction to Aristotle 158

The Rhetoric of Aristotle 162

Aristotle: A Summary 176

Scholarship and Radical Democracy 179.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0813390893

OCLC:

38549837