• Course Description 
• Links (required - you may be tested on this material!) 

• George A. Kennedy, "Prooemion" 
• Donald C. Bryant, "Rhetoric: Its Function and its Scope" 
• Herrick, Chapter 1. 

• "Rhetoric" from Encyclopedia Brittanica 
• Richard D. Johnson (Sheehan), "What Is Rhetoric?" 

• Herrick, Chapter 2. 
• Early Classical Timeline (PDF file) 
• Gorgias, "Encomium on Helen" (see also this guide to translation issues) 

• Bernard Suzanne, "Chronological History of Greece in the Vth and IVth Centuries BC" (detailed background information)." 
• Maggie Babyak, "Gorgias" - a brief discussion 
• James Caufield, "Gorgias of Leontini" - a fairly comprehensive discussion of internet resources available on Gorgias. 
• Menahem Luz, "PreSocratic Philosophers: The Sophists" (Lecture Notes) 

• Herrick, Chapter 3. 

• Plato, Gorgias 
• Plato, Phaedrus 
• Reading Guide to Gorgias 
• Reading Guide to Phaedrus 

• Aristotle, "Rhetoric" (selection). 

(note - you can download the entire text of this book for use in your palmpilot! Requires a DOC reader).
• Herrick, Chapter 4. 

• Outline of Aristotle's Rhetoric (Book I). 

Feel free to use the free time to post to HyperNews, and to start reading Isocrates.... 

• "Isocrates" and "Demosthenes" from the Perseus Online Encyclopedia 
• Richard Hooker, "Hellenistic Philosophy" - Mirror here. 
• It would also be useful to review the section on Isocrates in Herrick, Chapter 2. 

• Isocrates' Conceptions of Rhetoric (useful summary) 
• David Penso, "Philosophy of the Hellenistic Age" 
• D.H. Kelly, "Hellenistic History and Culture," Electronic Antiquity: Communicating the Classics 4:2 (April 1998). 
• Map of Hellenistic World (c. 240 BCE) 
• Map of Hellenistic World (c. 90 BCE) 
• Statue of Demosthenes 
• Picture of Chios, where Isocrates first established his school.... Had Isocrates taught in Southern California, he might have chosen Malibu. 

• Assignment 
• Sample Periodos 
• "Freedom" - a modern sample periodos 

Read:

• Herrick, Chapter 5. 
• Rhetoric in Ancient Rome (timeline) 

• Cicero on the Genres of Rhetoric 
• The Development of Roman Rhetorical Theory (lecture outline) 

Read Ahead if you like (see extra credit assignment for Apr. 2):

• Herrick, Chapter 9 

Chaim Perelman

• Chaim Perelman biography 
• Foss, Foss, and Trapp, "Chaim Perelman" 
• Richard Long, "The Role of Audience in Chaim Perelman's New Rhetoric" JAC 4 (1983). 
• Chaim Perelman on Rhetoric: summary of David Frank (1997) "The New Rhetoric, Judaism, and Post-Enlightenment thought: The Cultural Origins of Perelmanian

Philosophy," Quarterly Journal of Speech 83: 311-331. 

• Who is Stephen Toulmin? 
• Foss, Foss, and Trapp, "Stephen Toulmin" 
• The Toulmin Project page 

• Intro to "Discourse Ethics" 
• Habermas Web Resource 
• The Critical Theory of Habermas 
• lots more Habermas links 

• McClosky Email Interview 
• photo 
• A gushing McCloskey press release 

• Bitzer, "The Rhetorical Situation" (excerpt - full version online). 
• Vatz, "The Myth of the Rhetorical Situation" 
• Herrick, Chapter 10 

• Bitzer outline 
• Guide to Understanding the Rhetorical Situation 
• Barbara A. Biesecker, "Rethinking the Rhetorical Situation from within the Thematic of Differance" 
• Miscellaneous commentary on Bitzer/Vatz from students: [Lyon] [Ayabe] 
• Richard Vatz home page 

• Post to HyperNews a brief analysis of your favorite theorist from Herrick, Chapter 9. 

Read:

• Burke, "Definition of Man" 
• Burke, "Identification" 
• Burke, "Literature as Equipment for Living" 
• Burke, "The Rhetoric of Hitler's Battle" 

• Richard M. Coe, "Defining 'Rhetoric' - and Us" Journal of American Communication 10:1 (1990). Mirror here. (highly recommended!) 
• Burke's Definition of Human - good discussion of the definition 
• Kenneth Burke Material & Notes - includes text notes on "The Rhetoric of Hitler's Battle" 
• Kenneth Burke Society 
• Virtual Burkean Parlor (an excellent resource) 
• Burke's FBI File. 
• Burke Links 
• Thorstein Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class 
• Thorstein Veblen Links 

• Burke, "12 Propositions" 
• Burke, "The Nature of Art under Capitalism" 

Read:

• Nietzsche, "On Truth and Lie in an Extramoral Sense" 
• Marx, "Theses on Feuerbach" 

• Nietzsche Page 
• Marx/Engels Library 
• Another collection of Marx's writings 

Read:

• Gill, "Postmodernism" 
• Foss, Foss, and Trapp, "Michel Foucault" 
• Herrick, Chapter 11 

• James Comas, "Rhetoric and the Postmodern" 
• Michel Foucault and Rhetoric (lecture on FFT) 
• The Foucault Home Page at CSUN 
• Introduction to Postmodernism 
• Postmodernism generator, for when you get really bored. Generate totally meaningless essays at the click of your mouse. Just don't plagiarize them. 

Read:

• Jameson, "Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" 

• Jameson page 
• Another Jameson Page 

• Baudrillard, "Advertising" and "Conclusion: Towards a Definition of 'Consumption'" 

• The World of Jean Baudrillard 
• Baudrillard on the Web 
• Baudrillard - brief summary 
• Reality of Simulation 
• More Baudrillard on the Web