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In this powerful and unusual book, Mailloux joins histories of rhetoric and hermeneutic theory, 19th-century American cultural studies, and contemporary battles over curriculum reform in an illuminating reconceptualization of humanistic theory and practice at the end of the century. The scope of the project is daunting. Moving with ease from the ancient Greek sophists and pragmatic philosophy to the current Culture Wars and his own forays into academic politics at Syracuse, Mailloux enacts a cleverly chiasmic scholarly synthesis: a theory of rhetorical practice and the practice of theory in history. Marked by clarity of argument and prophetic passion, this inventive project will speak to scholars interested in rhetoric, philosophy, literary theory and criticism, difference studies, and academic politics. It secures Mailloux's status as public intellectual of the first order. -Susan C. Jarratt, University of California, Irvine

In this powerful and unusual book, Mailloux joins histories of rhetoric and hermeneutic theory, 19th-century American cultural studies, and contemporary battles over curriculum reform in an illuminating reconceptualization of humanistic theory and practice at the end of the century. The scope of the project is daunting. Moving with ease from the ancient Greek sophists and pragmatic philosophy to the current Culture Wars and his own forays into academic politics at Syracuse, Mailloux enacts a cleverly chiasmic scholarly synthesis: a theory of rhetorical practice and the practice of theory in history. Marked by clarity of argument and prophetic passion, this inventive project will speak to scholars interested in rhetoric, philosophy, literary theory and criticism, difference studies, and academic politics. It secures Mailloux's status as public intellectual of the first order. Susan C. Jarratt, University of California, Irvine

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Steven Mailloux is President's Professor of Rhetoric at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of Rhetorical Power and Interpretive Conventions: The Reader in the Study of American Fiction, both from Cornell, as well as, most recently, Disciplinary Identities: Rhetorical Paths of English, Speech, and Composition.

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