The Rhetorical Philosophy and Theory Series aims to extend the subject of rhetoric beyond its traditional and historical bounds and thus to elaborate rhetoric's significance as a metaperspective in provocative ways. Rhetoric has become an epistemology in its own right, one marked by heightened consciousness of the symbolic act as always already contextual and ideological. Otherwise known as the rhetorical turn, this dialectic between rhetoric and philosophy may lead to views transcending the limits of each, and thus help us better understand the ethical problems and possibilities of producing theory.

The Series seeks quality scholarly works that examine the significance of rhetorical theory in philosophical, historical, cultural, and disciplinary contexts. Such works will typically bring rhetorical theory to bear on the theoretical statements that enfranchise disciplinary paradigms and practice across the human sciences, with emphasis on the fields of rhetoric, composition, philosophy, and critical theory. 

The series is not presently accepting new submissions, but may again soon. Queries should be directed to David Blakesley, Editor, Rhetorical Philosophy and Theory, Department of English, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907.

For more information, visit Southern Illinois University Press's website.

Rhetoric on the Margins of Modernity: Vico, Condillac, Monboddo
Catherine L. Hobbs
November 2002; paper, 0-8093-2469-5; 192 pages

Unending Conversations: New Writings by and about Kenneth Burke (Spring 2001)

Edited by Greig Henderson and David Cratis Williams

Rhetoric as Philosophy: The Humanist Tradition (Spring 2001; Reprint, with a new introduction by Timothy W. Crusius)

By Ernesto Grassi

Breaking Up [at] Totality: A Rhetoric of Laughter (Published Dec. 1999)

By D. Diane Davis

Read more about it.

Kenneth Burke and the Conversation After Philosophy (Published March 1999)

By Timothy W. Crusius

Read more about it.

Tim Crusius was the subject of a PRE/TEXT "Reinvw" (ReInterView) on the P-T list online in November, 1999. To review the discussion, visit the PRE/TEXT website.