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- catalog abstract "Thoroughly 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 Rhetoric. This tradition, she argues, was rooted in the ancient conception of techne, or productive knowledge, a concept that appears both in literary texts dating back to 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 Rhetoric by E.M. Cope and William S.J. Grimaldi, where the concepts of techne and productive knowledge disappear in the modern opposition between theory and practice. Since models of knowledge are closely tied to models of subjectivity. Atwill's examination of techne 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.".
- catalog contributor b10432793.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description "Foreword / Wayne Rebhorn -- 1. Rhetoric, Humanism, and the Liberal Arts -- 2. Techne and the Transformation of Limits -- 3. Arts of Invention and Intervention -- 4. Prometheus and the Boundaries of Art -- 5. Plato and the Boundaries of Art -- 6. Aristotle and the Boundaries of the Good Life -- 7. Aristotle's Rhetoric and the Theory/Practice Binary -- 8. Arts of Virtue and Democracy.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-226) and index.".
- catalog description "Thoroughly 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 Rhetoric. This tradition, she argues, was rooted in the ancient conception of techne, or productive knowledge, a concept that appears both in literary texts dating back to 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 Rhetoric by E.M. Cope and William S.J. Grimaldi, where the concepts of techne and productive knowledge disappear in the modern opposition between theory and practice. Since models of knowledge are closely tied to models of subjectivity. Atwill's examination of techne 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.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 235 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0801432634 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Rhetoric & society".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press,".
- catalog subject "370.11/2 21".
- catalog subject "Education, Humanistic.".
- catalog subject "LC1011 .A89 1998".
- catalog subject "Rhetoric, Ancient.".
- catalog subject "Techne (Philosophy)".
- catalog tableOfContents "Foreword / Wayne Rebhorn -- 1. Rhetoric, Humanism, and the Liberal Arts -- 2. Techne and the Transformation of Limits -- 3. Arts of Invention and Intervention -- 4. Prometheus and the Boundaries of Art -- 5. Plato and the Boundaries of Art -- 6. Aristotle and the Boundaries of the Good Life -- 7. Aristotle's Rhetoric and the Theory/Practice Binary -- 8. Arts of Virtue and Democracy.".
- catalog title "Rhetoric reclaimed : Aristotle and the liberal arts tradition / Janet M. Atwill.".
- catalog type "text".