Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition

Name: Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition
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ISBN: 9780791462867

ISBN-10: 0791462862

ISBN-13: 9780791462867

Edition: 2005

Authors: Richard Graff, Arthur E. Walzer, Janet M. Atwill, Steven Mailloux

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 1/28/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 213
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Walzer is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.



Introduction




Definitions : traditional and new



Revisionist historiography and rhetorical tradition(s)




The rhetorical tradition




The ends of rhetoric revisited : three readings of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address




De-canonizing ancient rhetoric




Rhetoric and civic virtue




Possibilities : contemporary rhetorical occasions and the tradition(s)



A human measure : ancient rhetoric, twenty-first-century loss




Teaching "political wisdoms" : Isocrates and the tradition of Dissoi Logoi




On the formation of democratic citizens : rethinking the rhetorical tradition in a digital age




Civic humanism, a postmortem?




Rhetoric in the age of cognitive science



Afterword : using traditions : a Gadamerian reflection on canons, contexts, and rhetoric