The Ethical Fantasy of Rhetorical Theory (Composition, Literacy, and Culture)

✍ Scribed by Ira Allen

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 194
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Despite its centrality to its field, there is no consensus regarding what rhetorical theory is and why it matters. The Ethical Fantasy of Rhetorical Theory presents a critical examination of rhetorical theory throughout history, in order to develop a unifying vision for the field. Demonstrating that theorists have always been skeptical of yet committed to "truth" (however fantastic), Ira Allen develops rigorous notions of truth and of a "troubled freedom" that spring from rhetoric’s depths. In a sweeping analysis from the sophists Aristotle, and Cicero through Kenneth Burke, Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca, and contemporary scholars in English, communication, and rhetoric’s other disciplinary homes, Allen offers a novel definition of rhetorical theory: as the self-consciously ethical study of how humans and other symbolic animals negotiate constraints.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction: Presentation and Rhetorical Theory... 1
1: Fantasies of Rhetorical Theory... 16
2: Approaching Rhetorical Theory's Truth... 59
3: Three Points for Rhetorical Theory... 119
4: Modern Rhetorical Theory, One and All... 166
5: Modern Rhetorical Theory, Acting Symbolically... 218
6: Ethically Approaching Troubled Freedom... 267
Notes... 281

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