(The) rise of rhetoric and its intersections with contemporary critical thought

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Preface = ⅸ
• Acknowledgments = xiii
• Introduction = 1
• Rhetoric as Culturally Experienced = 1
• What Is Rhetoric? = 5
• Effective Versus Ineffective Rhetorical Theory = 9
• Conclusion = 14
• Notes = 15
• 1 The Circumstance Behind the Development of Rhetorical Theory = 17
• The Need for Historicization in the Study of Ideas = 18
• Exploring the Contradictions in Athenian and American "Democracy" = 29
• The Political Structure of Ancient Greece = 31
• Comparison to U.S. Imperialism = 38
• The Epistemic Function of Rhetoric = 40
• Conclusion = 42
• Notes = 42
• 2 The Beginning of Rhetoric in Ancient Greece = 46
• Ideas, Representation, and Mythology = 46
• Rhetoric Comes to Athens = 60
• Protagoras and Gorgias = 70
• Influence of the Sophists = 81
• Conclusion = 83
• Notes = 83
• 3 Isocrates = 87
• Characteristics of Isocrates' Educational and Linguistic Philosophy = 89
• Pedagogy and Politics = 94
• Che Guevara, Praxis, and Third World Pan-Nationalism = 98
• Isocrates' Educational "System" = 104
• The Writings of Isocrates = 107
• Conclusion = 114
• Notes = 114
• 4 Plato = 118
• Education and Praxis : From Isocrates to Plato = 118
• Reification and Foundations in the Dialogues of Plato = 121
• Richard Weaver and Plato's Objections to the Sophists = 132
• Plato's Philosophical Views = 136
• Platonic Versus Rhetorical Analysis = 146
• Conclusion = 150
• Notes = 151
• 5 Aristotle = 154
• Foucault, Knowledge, and Language = 154
• Platonic Tendencies in Western Society = 156
• Introduction to Aristotle = 158
• The Rhetoric of Aristotle = 162
• Aristotle : A Summary = 176
• Notes = 176
• Conclusion = 179
• Scholarship and Radical Democracy = 179
• Notes = 183
• Index = 185