Rereading Aristotle's Rhetoric

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Rereading Aristotle’s Southern Illinois University Press Gross and Walzer Rereading Aristotle’s Rhetoric “Gross and Walzer are to be commended for collecting essays exhibiting a great deal of studied insight into the Rhetoric. Moreover, it is a pleasure to read authors who take their work so seriously and who at the same time write with such a deft touch.” —The Review of Communication “This book captures the renewed scholarly interest in Aristotle’s Rhetoric . . . and goes a long way toward enabling the reader to understand the substantive and methodological character of that interest.” —Rhetoric Review In this collection edited by Alan G. Gross and Arthur E. Walzer, scholars in communication, rhetoric and composition, and philosophy seek to “reread” Aristotle’s Rhetoric from a purely rhetorical perspective. So important do these contributors find the Rhetoric, in fact, that a core tenet in this book is that “all subsequent rhetorical theory is but a series of responses to issues raised by the central work.” Contributors: Jeanne Fahnestock, Thomas B. Farrell, Robert N. Gaines, Eugene Garver, Lawrence D. Green, Alan G. Gross, Carolyn R. Miller, Jeffrey Walker, Arthur E. Walzer, and Barbara Warnick Alan G. Gross is a professor of rhetoric at the University of Minnesota– Twin Cities. He is the author of The Rhetoric of Science and Starring the Text: The Place of Rhetoric in Science Studies. He is coeditor of Rhetorical Hermeneutics: Invention and Interpretation in the Age of Science and The Scientific Literature: A Guided Tour. Arthur E. Walzer is a professor in writing studies at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of George Campbell: Rhetoric in the Age of Enlightenment and coeditor of The Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition.      ISBN 0-8093-2847-X ISBN 978-0-8093-2847-5 Edited by Alan G. Gross and Arthur E. Walzer Printed in the United States of America Southern Illinois University Press 1915 University Press Drive Mail Code 6806 Carbondale, IL 62901 www.siu.edu/~siupress ZZZ ZZZ ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ ,!7IA8A9-dciehf! GrossWalzer-NIP.indd 1 11/29/07 10:47:03 AM i Rereading Aristotle’s ii ...