{"product_id":"rhetoric-reclaimed-aristotle-and-the-liberal-arts-tradition-rhetoric-and-society-9780801476051","title":"Rhetoric Reclaimed: Aristotle and the Liberal Arts Tradition (Rhetoric and Society)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThoroughly 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 Aristotles Rhetoric. This tradition was rooted in the ancient sophistic and platonic conceptions of techn  or productive knowledge  that appears both in literary texts from 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 Aristotles Rhetoric by E. M. Cope and William S. J. Grimaldi  where the concepts of techn and productive knowledge disappear in the modern opposition between theory and practice. Since models of knowledge are closely tied to models of subjectivity  Atwills examination of techn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647610249269,"sku":"ByrdShop_0801476054","price":36.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/rhetoric-reclaimed-aristotle-and-the-liberal-arts-tradition-rhetoric-and-society-9780801476051","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}