The Public Work of Rhetoric

Citizen-Scholars and Civic Engagement

Edited by John M. Ackerman and David J. Coogan

Reviewed by Jennifer Clifton, University of Texas at El Paso

  • Introduction
  • Rhetoric Revealed
    • Miller - Should We Name the Tools? Concealing and Revealing the Art of Rhetoric
    • Rai - Power, Publics, and Rhetorical Uses of Democracy
    • Bruner - The Public Work of Critical Communication
    • Ackerman - Rhetorical Engagement in the Cultural Economies of Cities
    • Cintron - Democracy and Its Limitations
  • Rhetorical Interventions
    • Condit - Rhetorical Engagements in the Scientist's Process of Remaking Race as Genetic
    • Flower - Going Public--in a Disabling Discourse
    • Coogan - Sophists for Social Change
    • Cushman and Green - Knowledge Work with the Cherokee Nation
    • Grabill - On Being Useful: Rhetoric and the Work of Engagement
  • Remaking Rhetoric
    • Fleming - Finding a Place for School in Rhetoric's Public Turn
    • Juergensmeyer and Miller - Mediating Differences
    • George and Matthieu - A Place for the Dissident Press in a Rhetorical Education: "Sending up a signal flare in the darkness"
    • Joliffe - The Community Literacy Advocacy Project: Civic Revival through Rhetorical Activity in Rural Arkansas
    • Jarratt - The Prospects for the Public Work of Rhetoric: A Coda on Codes
  • Conclusion
  • References

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