The Rhetorical Turn: Invention and Persuasion in the Conduct of Inquiry. Edited by Herbert W. Simons

Raymie E. McKerrow

doi:10.1080/00028533.1992.11951541

McKerrow, Raymie E.

1992-01-01 00:00:00

ARGUMENTATION AND ADVOCACY BOOK REVIEWS believe, lies precisely in his dichotomizing pair the Enlightenment legacy, by recou of discursive practice into either critical pling the rationality of institutions to the rational discussion or undifferentiated acts practices of social knowledge, through the reconstruction of the normative standards of display. This dichotomy is produced at of argumentation. In the end, though, The the very beginning of his project where he Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere uncritically accepts Hannah Arendt's bifur challenges us, as students of argumenta cation of Greek culture into an oikos tion, to critique communication practices representing home, work, and necessity, that sail under the tattered flag of "public and a polis representing public fora, com discussion and debate" by first subjecting petitive excellence, and freedom (3--4, 19). to self-criticism our traditional assump While it is true that the Greeks often did tions about good and viable public argu not oppose the terms "oikos" and "polis" in ment. a dualistic manner, it is also the case that the proper constitution of "public" and G. THOMAS GOODNIGHT "private" were matters of an on-going Northwestern University debate concerning, among other things, the discursive constellations of education and citizenship. Within this

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