This work argues that the core of a college education should be learning to write a reasoned argument. The author challenges his readers - teachers of writing and communication, philosophers, critical theorists and educational administrators - to reestablish the importance of rhetoric in education.
This work argues that the core of a college education should be learning to write a reasoned argument. The author challenges his readers - teachers of...
Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic, claimed Aristotle. Rhetoric is the first part of logic rightly understood, Martin Heidegger concurred. Rhetoric is the universal form of human communication, opined Hans-Georg Gadamer. But in "Deep Rhetoric," James Crosswhite offers a groundbreaking new conception of rhetoric, one that builds a definitive case for an understanding of the discipline as a philosophical enterprise beyond basic argumentation and is fully conversant with the advances of the New Rhetoric of Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca. Chapter by chapter, "Deep Rhetoric"...
Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic, claimed Aristotle. Rhetoric is the first part of logic rightly understood, Martin Heidegger concurred. Rhetoric ...
