The critical servant

An isocratean contribution to critical rhetoric

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9236518
AutoresNorman H Clark (University of Iowa, autor correspondente), Norman Clark (0000-0002-6093-5989)
Ano1996
Volume82
Fascículo2
Páginas111-124
Data de publicação1996-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoQuarterly Journal of Speech (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0033-5630 • E-ISSN: 1479-5779
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00335639609384145
OpenAlexW1964484957
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas16

The critical rhetoric project at present lacks a strong understanding of the relationship between the critical rhetor and the audience. This essay suggests that the writings of Isocrates offer an example for and an extension of the critical rhetoric project. Isocrates's combination of critique and service urges rhetors to act as critical servants. By combining community history, critical possibilities, and rhetorical performance, the critical servant strives to arrive at a contingent good submitted for the acceptance of the community. The critic's reading, interpreting and remaking of the community's history reunites the individual and the social, theory and practice, critique and service

Critical consciousness · Critical discourse analysis · Critical practice · Critical reading · Critical theory · Economics · Epistemology · Extension (predicate logic) · Ideology · Linguistics · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Reading (process) · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Servant · Service (business) · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Law · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis · Philosophy · Public Relations and Crisis Communication · Rhetoric and Communication Studies