Abstract
When is epideictic rhetoric? In response to a critical review of our past and present, this essay offers a theoretical vision of rhetoric's potentiality. It is time to begin.
Notes
[1] George Kennedy, trans., Progymnasmata: Greek Textbooks of Prose Composition and Rhetoric (Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003).
[2] Kennedy, Progymnasmata, 108.
[3] Aristotle, The “Art” of Rhetoric, trans. John Henry Freese (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1926).
[4] Aristotle, Rhetoric, 1358b18–20.
[5] Aristotle, Rhetoric, 1358b4–5. Of course, Aristotle also calls rhetoric itself a dunamis … tou theōresai, making the theorization of potentiality simultaneously a part and the whole of rhetoric. See 1355b30.
[6] Aristotle, Metaphysics, trans. Hugh Tredennick (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936), 1019a19.
[7] Aristotle, Metaphysics, 1019b14.
[8] Aristotle, Rhetoric, 1358b3–6.
[9] Aristotle, Rhetoric, 1358b6–7.
[10] Aristotle, Metaphysics, 1048b24–25.