Scott R. Stroud is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also the author of John Dewey and the Artful Life: Pragmatism, Aesthetics, and Morality (Penn State, 2011).

“A much-needed and important contribution to the field of Kantian studies. It expands the field of ‘impure ethics’ in new directions and will trigger renewed interest in this neglected dimension of ‘moral anthropology.’”—Pablo Muchnik Kant-Studien

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Kant and Rhetoric? 1.Tracing the Sources of Kant’s Apparent Animosity to Rhetoric2.Kant on Beauty, Art, and Rhetoric3.Freedom, Coercion, and the Search for the Ideal Community4.Pedagogical Educative Rhetoric: Education, Rhetoric, and the Use of Example5.Religious Educative Rhetoric: Religion and Ritual as Rhetorical Means of Moral Cultivation6.Critical Educative Rhetoric: Kant and the Demands of Critical CommunicationConclusion: Rhetorical Experience and the Promise of Rhetorical PracticeNotesBibliographyIndex

Scott R. Stroud is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also the author of John Dewey and the Artful Life: Pragmatism, Aesthetics, and Morality (Penn State, 2011).

“A much-needed and important contribution to the field of Kantian studies. It expands the field of ‘impure ethics’ in new directions and will trigger renewed interest in this neglected dimension of ‘moral anthropology.’”—Pablo Muchnik Kant-Studien

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Kant and Rhetoric? 1.Tracing the Sources of Kant’s Apparent Animosity to Rhetoric2.Kant on Beauty, Art, and Rhetoric3.Freedom, Coercion, and the Search for the Ideal Community4.Pedagogical Educative Rhetoric: Education, Rhetoric, and the Use of Example5.Religious Educative Rhetoric: Religion and Ritual as Rhetorical Means of Moral Cultivation6.Critical Educative Rhetoric: Kant and the Demands of Critical CommunicationConclusion: Rhetorical Experience and the Promise of Rhetorical PracticeNotesBibliographyIndex

Scott R. Stroud is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also the author of John Dewey and the Artful Life: Pragmatism, Aesthetics, and Morality (Penn State, 2011).

“A much-needed and important contribution to the field of Kantian studies. It expands the field of ‘impure ethics’ in new directions and will trigger renewed interest in this neglected dimension of ‘moral anthropology.’”—Pablo Muchnik Kant-Studien

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Kant and Rhetoric? 1.Tracing the Sources of Kant’s Apparent Animosity to Rhetoric2.Kant on Beauty, Art, and Rhetoric3.Freedom, Coercion, and the Search for the Ideal Community4.Pedagogical Educative Rhetoric: Education, Rhetoric, and the Use of Example5.Religious Educative Rhetoric: Religion and Ritual as Rhetorical Means of Moral Cultivation6.Critical Educative Rhetoric: Kant and the Demands of Critical CommunicationConclusion: Rhetorical Experience and the Promise of Rhetorical PracticeNotesBibliographyIndex