Essays in Critical, Contemporary, and Philosophical Rhetoric
1st Edition
Published on 23. July 2025
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Paperback/Softback
285 pages
978-1-0364-5402-9 (ISBN)
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This text is a representative sample of my research focus in contemporary rhetoric since the mid-1970s. It highlights work that explores themes expressed in the text's title. While not an exhaustive account of the themes, the text provides easy access to theoretical issues in rhetorical studies. These include topics such as the role of culture, citizenship, how space and time interact to affect the words we use, and the impulse to use language in critiquing the expressions of others. The collection is designed to be used by faculty teaching upper-level undergraduate to doctoral level courses in rhetoric at colleges and universities in the USA. It also will be a resource at universities across the globe. The goal is to stimulate thought and provoke critical responses to the ideas and arguments contained in the essays. Thus, this is a text to be used to assist scholars and students as they engage in their own work.
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Raymie E. McKerrow is Professor Emeritus, School of Communication Studies, Ohio University, Athens, USA. He earned his BS at Southern Illinois University (1966), an MA at Colorado State University (1968), and his PhD in Communication at the University of Iowa (1974), all of them in the USA. As past president of the National Communication Association (2000) and the Eastern Communication Association (1986), he has received NCA's Douglas Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award (2006) and NCA's Wallace A. Bacon Lifetime Teaching Excellence Award (2017). He has published 100 essays in journals, proceedings, and edited collections, and is best known as a "critical rhetorician," based on his oft-cited 1989 essay: "Critical Rhetoric: Theory and Praxis." His research focuses on the intersection of postmodernism, critical rhetoric and culture. He taught doctoral level graduate seminars in feminist rhetoric, rhetoric and culture, and specialized courses on Foucault and Social Change and Ranciére and Social Change.