Rhetoric Reclaimed: Aristotle and the Liberal Arts Tradition
- ISBN-10
- 0801476054
- ISBN-13
- 9780801476051
- Category
- Education, Humanistic
- Pages
- 262
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Author
- Janet M. Atwill
Description
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 through the lens of a neglected classical tradition of rhetoric.
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- 1998
- 235 pages
- Paperback
- Cornell University Press
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