Rhetoric: A Peculiarly American Tradition

"All but abandoned by the end of the nineteenth century, the study of rhetoric flowers as we end the twentieth. Graduate programs, scholarly journals, books, conferences, and scholars now actively engage in its study. Rhetoric is being transformed once again, from a pejorative to an honorific term. Although it is still used by many to indicate bombast and empty gesture, rhetoric is being revived as an all-encompassing term, one that concerns inquiry and the making of knowledge, and the communication of that inquiry."

--Theresa Enos ∓ Stuart C. Brown, Professing the New Rhetorics

When rhetoric is better than science…

How is rhetoric practical?

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