The Genuine Teachers of This Art: Rhetorical Education in by Jeffrey Walker,Thomas W. Benson
By Jeffrey Walker,Thomas W. Benson
Through a research of the classical rhetorical paideia, or education approach, Walker makes a case for contemplating rhetoric no longer as an Aristotelian critical-theoretical self-discipline, yet as an Isocratean pedagogical self-discipline during which the paintings of rhetoric is neither an artwork of manufacturing serious idea nor even an artwork of manufacturing speeches and texts, yet an paintings of manufacturing audio system and writers. Walker grounds his research in pedagogical theses mined from revealing against-the-grain readings of Cicero, Isocrates, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Walker additionally locates helping examples from a number of different resources, together with Aelius Theon, Aphthonius, the Rhetoric to Alexander, the Rhetoric to Herennius, Quintilian, Hermogenes, Hermagoras, Lucian, Libanius, Apsines, the nameless Seguerianus, and fragments of historical scholar writing preserved in papyri. Walker's epilogue considers the relevance of the traditional technê culture for the trendy self-discipline of rhetoric, arguing that rhetoric is outlined most advantageous by way of its pedagogical firm, the undertaking of manufacturing rhetors in a position to clever, potent, and precious civic engagement via speech and writing.
This groundbreaking imaginative and prescient of the technê culture considerably revises the traditional photo of the traditional background of rhetoric with ramifications for the modern disciplinary identification of rhetoric itself.
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