Rereading Aristotle's Rhetoric - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080932847X ISBN 13: 9780809328475

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008

Synopsis

In this collection edited by Alan G. Gross and Arthur E. Walzer, scholars in communication, rhetoric and composition, and philosophy seek to “reread” Aristotle’s Rhetoric from a purely rhetorical perspective. So important do these contributors find the Rhetoric, in fact, 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.

  

About this title

About the Author:

Alan G. Gross is a professor of rhetoric at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. He is the author of The Rhetoric of Science and Starring the Text: The Place of Rhetoric in Science Studies.  He is co-editor of Rhetorical Hermeneutics: Invention and Interpretation in the Age of Science and The Scientific Literature: A Guided Tour.

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.     

Review:

“[These essays are]notable for their command of the relevant issues, problems, and possibilities attending Aristotelian scholarship. [Their] chief strength rests in the multiple perspectives and voices brought to bear on a single text; and it is clear not only that the text can assume such weight, but that these rereadings in turn help enrich and complicate our understanding of the Rhetoric. . . . [T]he book makes a solid claim to staking out new territory for the study of Aristotle.”―Stephen Browne, author of Edmund Burke and the Discourse of Virtue  

About this edition

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 080932847X
• ISBN 13: 9780809328475
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Alan G. Gross, Professor Arthur E. Walzer