The Ends of Rhetoric - 9780804718172

The Ends of RhetoricHistory, Theory, Practice\nAuthor(s): John Bender, David E. Wellbery\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804718172, 978-0804718172\nSynopsis\nThe discipline of rhetoricadapted through a wide range of reformulations to the specific requirements of Greek, Roman, Medieval, and Renaissance societiesdominated European education and discourse, whether public or private, for more than two thousand years. The end of classical rhetoric's domination was brought about by a combination of social and cultural transformations that occurred between the seventeenth and ninteenth centuries.\n\n Concurrent with the \""theory boom\"" of recent decades, rhetoric has reappeared as a center of discussion in the humanities and social sciences. Rhetorical inquiry, as it is thought and practiced today, occurs in an interdisciplinary matrix that touches on philosophy, linguistics, communication studies, psyc.