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Norms of Rhetorical Culture

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ISBN-10: 0300065027

ISBN-13: 9780300065022

Edition: 1993

Authors: Thomas B. Farrell

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In this gracefully written 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 the rhetorical tradition, Farrell also offers a critique of the dominant currents of modern humanist thought, as seen in modern texts from works by Habermas to Vaclav Havel's inaugural address. "A distinguished treatise on the interface of philosophy, rhetoric, and communication. This is the most comprehensive, scholarly, and discerning discussion of the issues that lie at the…    
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Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 8/30/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.93" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Rhetoric and Dialectic as Modes of Inquiry
The Paradox of Method
Analytic and Dialectic as Methods
Rhetoric and Appearances
Dialectical versus Rhetorical Responses to Appearances
Rhetorical Reflection: Toward an Ethic of Practical Reason
Origins of Rhetorical Tradition
Aristotelian Rhetorical Tradition: The Ethics of a Practice
Rhetoric as Dynamis and Techne
Audience as Rhetorical Agency
Rhetoric as Practical Reason
Rhetoric and the Narrative of Human Contingency
Roosevelt's Inaugural as the Forging of a Civic Culture
Implications for Recovery: Toward a Rhetorical Sensibility
In the Horizon of Necessity: Tragic Rhetoric and Public Character
A Rereading of Poetic and Rhetoric
Plato's Indictments
Aristotle's Poetics
Tragedy as Eulogy: A Modern Example
Beyond Aesthetics: Tragedy and Social Hope
After Rhetorical Culture: The Spectacle of Modernity
Tradition, Phronesis, and Negative Teleology
Excursus on Tertullian: Religion in Exile
Excursus on Horkheimer: Enlightenment in Exile
Universal Pragmatics and Practical Reason: From Deformation to Reformation
Communicative Action and Rhetorical Practice
Recalling the Public Sphere
Revising Discourse Ethics: Toward an Emancipation of Rhetoric
Reforming Rhetorical Practice: Cuomo on Abortion
Rhetorical Coherence: Refiguring the Episodes of Public Life
Two Genres of Communicative Practice
Topoi for Rhetoric in Conversation
The Rhetoric of Conversational Coherence
Enthymematic Reflection as Rhetorical Invention
Criticism, Disturbance, and Rhetorical Community: Reanimating the Occasions for Rhetoric
Rereading Rhetorical Culture
Refiguring Rhetorical Practice
Authority and Perspective: Reagan and Gorbachev
Integrity as Issue: Elizabeth Linder and Connie Mack
Responsibility as Conscience: Jenninger at Kristallnacht
Notes
Bibliography
Index