edited by Alan G. Gross and Arthur E. Walzer
Southern Illinois University Press, 2000
eISBN: 978-0-8093-8723-6 | Paper: 978-0-8093-2847-5 | Cloth: 978-0-8093-2267-1
Library of Congress Classification PN173.A7R47 2000
Dewey Decimal Classification 808.5

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ABOUT THIS BOOK




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.