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The Ethical Fantasy of Rhetorical Theory

The Ethical Fantasy of Rhetorical Theory

Allen, Ira J.

Paperback

Series: Composition, Literacy, and Culture

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ISBN10: 0822965364
ISBN13: 9780822965367
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: Aug 7 2018
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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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