Foreword | p. ix |
Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Note on Texts | p. xiii |
Abbreviations | p. xv |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Rhetoric, Humanism, and the Liberal Arts | p. 4 |
The Institution of Humanism | p. 7 |
Paradoxes of the Humanist Paradigm | p. 21 |
Rhetoric and Humanism | p. 29 |
Technē and the Transformation of Limits | p. 47 |
Gods and Goddesses of Art | p. 49 |
Power, Cunning Intelligence, and Time | p. 52 |
Arts of Resistance and Transformation | p. 60 |
Arts of Invention and Intervention | p. 70 |
Technē/ology, Science, and Ancient Medicine | p. 71 |
The Interstices of Nature, Spontaneity, and Chance | p. 83 |
Technē and the Fuzzy Art of Invention | p. 98 |
Prometheus and the Boundaries of Art | p. 101 |
Hesiod's Prometheus Narratives | p. 103 |
Technē and the Standardization of Value | p. 107 |
Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound | p. 111 |
Plato and the Boundaries of Art | p. 120 |
Philosophers versus Rhetors | p. 122 |
Protagoras's Prometheus Narrative | p. 149 |
Marking the Boundaries of Fate | p. 155 |
Aristotle and the Boundaries of the Good Life | p. 162 |
Theoretical, Practical, and Productive Knowledge | p. 164 |
Eudaimonia and Subjectivity as Private Property | p. 176 |
Technē and Philosophy according to Isocrates and Aristotle | p. 185 |
Aristotle's Rhetoric and the Theory/Practice Binary | p. 190 |
Theory/Practice and Productive Knowledge | p. 192 |
Edward M. Cope and Rhetoric as Practical Knowledge | p. 196 |
William Grimaldi and Rhetoric as Theoretical Knowledge | p. 202 |
Arts of Virtue and Democracy | p. 207 |
Arts of Intervention versus Sciences of Representation | p. 207 |
Inventing Arts of Respect and Justice | p. 210 |
Bibliography | p. 213 |
Index | p. 227 |
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