The Practice of Theory : Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Pedagogy in the Academy (Hardcover)

1. Gorgias, Phaedrus, and the rhetorical formulation of the extra-discursive; 2. Aristotle on rhetoric, phronesis, and practical knowledge; 3. A rhetorical reading of the human sciences: towards antifoundationalism; 4. Rorty and the mirror of nature: hermeneutics and the possibility of social change; 5. Louise Phelps and theory: towards a human science disciplined by practical wisdom; 6. Liberatory pedagogy, conceptual knowledge: towards a practical wisdom disciplined by scientific observation; 7. Toward a materialistic rhetoric: writing the conditions of the incommensurable.