Norms of Rhetorical Culture

by Thomas B. Farrell

• ISBN13: 9780300065022
• ISBN10: 0300065027
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1995-08-30
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Rhetoric and Dialectic as Modes of Inquiry	p. 14
The Paradox of Method	p. 15
Analytic and Dialectic as Methods	p. 18
Rhetoric and Appearances	p. 25
Dialectical versus Rhetorical Responses to Appearances	p. 33
Rhetorical Reflection: Toward an Ethic of Practical Reason	p. 51
Origins of Rhetorical Tradition	p. 54
Aristotelian Rhetorical Tradition: The Ethics of a Practice	p. 61
Rhetoric as Dynamis and Techne	p. 62
Audience as Rhetorical Agency	p. 68
Rhetoric as Practical Reason	p. 72
Rhetoric and the Narrative of Human Contingency	p. 77
Roosevelt's Inaugural as the Forging of a Civic Culture	p. 83
Implications for Recovery: Toward a Rhetorical Sensibility	p. 93
In the Horizon of Necessity: Tragic Rhetoric and Public Character	p. 101
A Rereading of Poetic and Rhetoric	p. 103
Plato's Indictments	p. 104
Aristotle's Poetics	p. 108
Tragedy as Eulogy: A Modern Example	p. 118
Beyond Aesthetics: Tragedy and Social Hope	p. 135
After Rhetorical Culture: The Spectacle of Modernity	p. 141
Tradition, Phronesis, and Negative Teleology	p. 142
Excursus on Tertullian: Religion in Exile	p. 155
Excursus on Horkheimer: Enlightenment in Exile	p. 169
Universal Pragmatics and Practical Reason: From Deformation to Reformation	p. 187
Communicative Action and Rhetorical Practice	p. 188
Recalling the Public Sphere	p. 197
Revising Discourse Ethics: Toward an Emancipation of Rhetoric	p. 202
Reforming Rhetorical Practice: Cuomo on Abortion	p. 213
Rhetorical Coherence: Refiguring the Episodes of Public Life	p. 230
Two Genres of Communicative Practice	p. 232
Topoi for Rhetoric in Conversation	p. 241
The Rhetoric of Conversational Coherence	p. 248
Enthymematic Reflection as Rhetorical Invention	p. 257
Criticism, Disturbance, and Rhetorical Community: Reanimating the Occasions for Rhetoric	p. 276
Rereading Rhetorical Culture	p. 277
Refiguring Rhetorical Practice	p. 288
Authority and Perspective: Reagan and Gorbachev	p. 293
Integrity as Issue: Elizabeth Linder and Connie Mack	p. 304
Responsibility as Conscience: Jenninger at Kristallnacht	p. 308
Notes	p. 323
Bibliography	p. 357
Index	p. 371
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