Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition

Richard Graff is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Arthur E. Walzer is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and the author of George Campbell: Rhetoric in the Age of Enlightenment, also published by SUNY Press. Janet M. Atwill is Associate Professor of English at The University of Tennessee at Knoxville and coeditor (with Janice M. Lauer) of Perspectives on Rhetorical Invention.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Richard Graff PART ONE: Definitions: Traditional and New 1. Revisionist Historiography and Rhetorical Tradition(s) Richard Graff and Michael Leff 2. The Rhetorical Tradition Alan G. Gross 3. The Ends of Rhetoric Revisited: Three Readings of Lincoln's Gettysburg AddressLeah Ceccarelli 4. De-Canonizing Ancient Rhetoric Robert N. Gaines 5. Rhetoric and Civic Virtue Janet M. Atwill PART TWO: Possibilities: Contemporary Rhetorical Occasions and the Tradition(s) 6. A Human Measure: Ancient Rhetoric, Twenty-first-Century LossSusan C. Jarratt 7. Teaching "Political Wisdom": Isocrates and the Tradition of Dissoi Logoi Arthur E. Walzer 8. On the Formation of Democratic Citizens: Rethinking the Rhetorical Tradition in a Digital Age William Hart-Davidson, James P. Zappen, and S. Michael Halloran 9. Civic Humanism, a Postmortem? Thomas J. Kinney and Thomas P. Miller 10. Rhetoric in the Age of Cognitive Science Jeanne Fahnestock Afterword. Using Traditions: A Gadamerian Reflection on Canons, Contexts, and Rhetoric Steven Mailloux Contributors Index