The Ethical Fantasy of Rhetorical Theory
by
Ira J. Allen
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Composition, Literacy, and Culture
ISBN-10
0822965364
ISBN-13
9780822965367
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
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University of Pittsburgh Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 7th, 2018
Print length
328 Pages
Weight
528 grams
Dimensions
15.30 x 22.70 x 2.30 cms
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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.
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-Tyceta, 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.
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