Rhetoric Reclaimed: Aristotle and the Liberal Arts Tradition by Janet M. Atwill

Description: Rhetoric Reclaimed by Janet M. Atwill This book offers a critique of traditional conceptions of the liberal arts, exploring the challenges posed by cultural diversity to the aims and methods of a humanist education through the lens of a neglected classical tradition of rhetoric. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Thoroughly embedded in postmodern theory, this book offers a critique of traditional conceptions of the liberal arts, exploring the challenges posed by cultural diversity to the aims and methods of a humanist education. Janet M. Atwill investigates a neglected tradition of rhetoric, exemplified by Protagoras and Isocorates, and preserved in Aristotles Rhetoric. This tradition was rooted in the ancient sophistic and platonic conceptions of techne, or productive knowledge, that appears both in literary texts from the seventh century B.C.E. and in medical and technical treatises from the fifth century B.C.E. Atwill examines these traditions, together with sophistic and platonic conceptions, and considers the commentaries on Aristotles Rhetoric by E. M. Cope and William S. J. Grimaldi, where the concepts of techne and productive knowledge disappear in the modern opposition between theory and practice. Since models of knowledge are closely tied to models of subjectivity, Atwills examination of techne also explores the role of political, economic, and educational institutions in standardizing a specific model for subjectivity.She argues that the liberal arts traditions largely eclipsed the social and political functions of rhetoric, transforming it from an art of disrupting and reinventing lines of power to a discipline of producing a normative subject, defined by virtue but modeled on a specific gender and class type. Author Biography Janet M. Atwill is Professor of English at University of Tennessee at Knoxville. She is the coeditor of The Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition. Review "In Rhetoric Reclaimed, Janet Atwill offers a new framework for understanding the history of Western rhetoric and a reinterpretation of Aristotles place within that history... She has done much to illuminate the competing forms of knowledge and subjectivity inscribed in the canonical texts of ancient rhetoric and has recovered a lost or under-appreciated dimension of these texts. In so doing, Rhetoric Reclaimed ... also suggests a starting point for reassessing and renegotiating the priorities and values we have inherited from the rhetorical tradition."-Rhetorik "The publication of Janet Atwills Rhetoric Reclaimed has served to powerfully recuperate and supplement an important conversation among the Greek sophists, one in which the notion of techne emerged not only as a rhetorical strategy, but also as a way of being and as an attitude about knowledge... The importance of Atwills book lies in its suggestion that attention to techne can enlarge our understanding of rhetoric in general and the theorizing and teaching of cooperative approaches to writing in particular."-Journal of Advanced Composition "This is an important book. To invite students to participate in constructing the standards of value and advantage in our culture is a vital pedagogical goal. Rhetoric Reclaimed advances us a long way toward that goal by helping us reconceive both the domain of productive knowledge and the intriguing range of rhetorics possibilities as a productive art."-Frederick J. Antczak, author of Thought and Character: The Rhetoric of Democratic Education "Rhetoric Reclaimed offers a unique and carefully considered blend of classical and postmodern approaches to rhetoric. By placing Aristotle and Bourdieu in dialogue, Atwill envisions rhetoric as an art of intervention rather than of representation, and her argument productively enlarges our understanding both of the history of rhetoric and of its place in contemporary liberal arts education."-Michael Leff, coauthor of Reading Rhetorical Texts: An Introduction to Criticism Long Description Thoroughly embedded in postmodern theory, this book offers a critique of traditional conceptions of the liberal arts, exploring the challenges posed by cultural diversity to the aims and methods of a humanist education. Janet M. Atwill investigates a neglected tradition of rhetoric, exemplified by Protagoras and Isocorates, and preserved in Aristotles Rhetoric . This tradition was rooted in the ancient sophistic and platonic conceptions of techn Review Quote "This is an important book. To invite students to participate in constructing the standards of value and advantage in our culture is a vital pedagogical goal. Rhetoric Reclaimed advances us a long way toward that goal by helping us reconceive both the domain of productive knowledge and the intriguing range of rhetorics possibilities as a productive art."-Frederick J. Antczak, author of Thought and Character: The Rhetoric of Democratic Education Details ISBN0801476054 Author Janet M. Atwill Short Title RHETORIC RECLAIMED Publisher Cornell University Press Language English ISBN-10 0801476054 ISBN-13 9780801476051 Media Book Format Paperback Imprint Cornell University Press Subtitle Aristotle and the Liberal Arts Tradition Place of Publication Ithaca Country of Publication United States Year 2009 Publication Date 2009-09-03 Residence TN, US Birth 1955 Illustrations black & white illustrations Audience Age 18 UK Release Date 2009-09-03 AU Release Date 2009-09-03 NZ Release Date 2009-09-03 US Release Date 2009-09-03 Pages 254 Series Rhetoric and Society Alternative 9780801432637 DEWEY 185 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159676604;

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