{"product_id":"rhetoric-reclaimed-aristotle-and-the-liberal-arts-tradition-paperback","title":"Rhetoric Reclaimed: Aristotle and the Liberal Arts Tradition - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJanet M. Atwill\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThoroughly embedded in postmodern theory, this book offers a critique of traditional conceptions of the liberal arts, exploring the challenges posed by cultural diversity to the aims and methods of a humanist education. Janet M. Atwill investigates a neglected tradition of rhetoric, exemplified by Protagoras and Isocorates, and preserved in Aristotle's \u003ci\u003eRhetoric\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis tradition was rooted in the ancient sophistic and platonic conceptions of \u003ci\u003etechné\u003c\/i\u003e, or productive knowledge, that appears both in literary texts from the seventh century B.C.E. and in medical and technical treatises from the fifth century B.C.E. Atwill examines these traditions, together with sophistic and platonic conceptions, and considers the commentaries on Aristotle's \u003ci\u003eRhetoric\u003c\/i\u003e by E. M. Cope and William S. J. Grimaldi, where the concepts of \u003ci\u003etechné\u003c\/i\u003e and productive knowledge disappear in the modern opposition between theory and practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince models of knowledge are closely tied to models of subjectivity, Atwill's examination of techné also explores the role of political, economic, and educational institutions in standardizing a specific model for subjectivity. She argues that the liberal arts traditions largely eclipsed the social and political functions of rhetoric, transforming it from an art of disrupting and reinventing lines of power to a discipline of producing a normative subject, defined by virtue but modeled on a specific gender and class type.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJanet M. Atwill is Professor of English at University of Tennessee at Knoxville. She is the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 254\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.66 x 9.13 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 03, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47451623129266,"sku":"9780801476051","price":75.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/113520149062a208d9e37670af534294.webp?v=1778798322","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/rhetoric-reclaimed-aristotle-and-the-liberal-arts-tradition-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}