Deep Rhetoric
Philosophy, Reason, Violence, Justice, Wisdom
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Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Introduction
1 What Is Deep Rhetoric?
What Is Rhetoric?
Origins of Rhetoric
Toward a Deep Rhetoric
Some Theologies and Teleologies of Rhetoric
Suspecting Universality
Deep Rhetoric and Big Rhetoric
Rhetoric and Humanism
Rhetorical Capabilities
2 What Is Deep Rhetoric? II
Rhetoric and Ideology
The Deep Rhetoric of the Late Twentieth Century
3 The Deep Rhetoric of Plato’s Gorgias
Deep Rhetoric: An Overview
Plato and the Sophists
Gorgias
Gorgias/Callicles
A Failure of Transcendence: Rhetoric and Narcissism
Deep Rhetorical Nomos and the Care of the Soul
Two Kinds of Rhetoric: A Deep Rhetorical Critique
The Ethical Ontology of Deep Rhetorical Decorum
Logos
4 Rhetoric and Violence
The Rhetorical Origin of Human Sociality: The Great Myth of Protagoras
Rhetoric Is Violence: Walter Benjamin
Deep Rhetoric: Otherwise Than Violence
Suffering Violence
5 Through Heidegger: Transcendence and Logos
Heidegger
World and Logos
Understanding, Interpretation, and Meaning
Assertion
Logos and Discourse
Transcendence: Grounds and Reasons
6 Beyond Heidegger: False Trails and Re-readings
Solus Ipse v. Logos
Silence and the Diminishment of Logos
Beyond Reason
The Ghostly Other
Re-reading Heidegger
7 Reason and Justice: The Deep Rhetorical Dimensions of the New Rhetoric Project
Deep Rhetoric and Justice
Reconstructing The New Rhetoric
8 Rhetoric and Wisdom
Wisdom in the Rhetorical Tradition
The Origin of Rhetoric in the Oresteia of Aeschylus
The Prajnaparamita Sutras
Hebrew Wisdom
Socratic Wisdom
Burkean Wisdom
New Rhetorical Wisdom
Athena’s Practical Wisdom
After Athena
What Is Rhetoric?
Origins of Rhetoric
Toward a Deep Rhetoric
Some Theologies and Teleologies of Rhetoric
Suspecting Universality
Deep Rhetoric and Big Rhetoric
Rhetoric and Humanism
Rhetorical Capabilities
2 What Is Deep Rhetoric? II
Rhetoric and Ideology
The Deep Rhetoric of the Late Twentieth Century
3 The Deep Rhetoric of Plato’s Gorgias
Deep Rhetoric: An Overview
Plato and the Sophists
Gorgias
Gorgias/Callicles
A Failure of Transcendence: Rhetoric and Narcissism
Deep Rhetorical Nomos and the Care of the Soul
Two Kinds of Rhetoric: A Deep Rhetorical Critique
The Ethical Ontology of Deep Rhetorical Decorum
Logos
4 Rhetoric and Violence
The Rhetorical Origin of Human Sociality: The Great Myth of Protagoras
Rhetoric Is Violence: Walter Benjamin
Deep Rhetoric: Otherwise Than Violence
Suffering Violence
5 Through Heidegger: Transcendence and Logos
Heidegger
World and Logos
Understanding, Interpretation, and Meaning
Assertion
Logos and Discourse
Transcendence: Grounds and Reasons
6 Beyond Heidegger: False Trails and Re-readings
Solus Ipse v. Logos
Silence and the Diminishment of Logos
Beyond Reason
The Ghostly Other
Re-reading Heidegger
7 Reason and Justice: The Deep Rhetorical Dimensions of the New Rhetoric Project
Deep Rhetoric and Justice
Reconstructing The New Rhetoric
8 Rhetoric and Wisdom
Wisdom in the Rhetorical Tradition
The Origin of Rhetoric in the Oresteia of Aeschylus
The Prajnaparamita Sutras
Hebrew Wisdom
Socratic Wisdom
Burkean Wisdom
New Rhetorical Wisdom
Athena’s Practical Wisdom
After Athena
Notes Works Cited Index
Review Quotes
Don Bialostosky | University of Pittsburgh
“Committed to an idea of rhetoric that addresses and leads others to transcend themselves, James Crosswhite enacts the role of a thoughtful lecturer engaged in a serious inquiry. His readings are compelling and careful and fresh—Deep Rhetoric will be essential reading for almost every serious thinker eager to find a basis for making good arguments in our time.”
John Arthos | author of Speaking Hermeneutically: Understanding in the Conduct of a Life
“This is not just a study of but a call for reconfiguration of the disciplines. Recognizing the depth of rhetoric as a general paideia. James Crosswhite broadens the scope of deep rhetoric beyond argumentation and repositions rhetoric in relation to the whole liberal arts curriculum. Rhetoric’s tradition grants it the right to make this challenge, and this is the right time for it.”
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