Rhetoric Reclaimed offers a unique and carefully considered blend of classical and postmodern approaches to rhetoric. By placing Aristotle and Bourdieu in dialogue, Atwill envisions rhetoric as an art of intervention rather than of representation, and her argument productively enlarges our understanding both of the history of rhetoric and of its place in contemporary liberal arts education. -Michael Leff, coauthor ... Read moreof Reading Rhetorical Texts: An Introduction to Criticism This is an important book. To invite students to participate in constructing the standards of value and advantage in our culture is a vital pedagogical goal. Rhetoric Reclaimed advances us a long way toward that goal by helping us reconceive both the domain of productive knowledge and the intriguing range of rhetoric's possibilities as a productive art. -Frederick J. Antczak, author of Thought and Character: The Rhetoric of Democratic Education The publication of Janet Atwill's Rhetoric Reclaimed has served to powerfully recuperate and supplement an important conversation among the Greek sophists, one in which the notion of techne emerged not only as a rhetorical strategy, but also as a way of being and as an attitude about knowledge. . . . The importance of Atwill's book lies in its suggestion that attention to techne can enlarge our understanding of rhetoric in general and the theorizing and teaching of cooperative approaches to writing in particular. -Journal of Advanced Composition In Rhetoric Reclaimed, Janet Atwill offers a new framework for understanding the history of Western rhetoric and a reinterpretation of Aristotle's place within that history. . . . She has done much to illuminate the competing forms of knowledge and subjectivity inscribed in the canonical texts of ancient rhetoric and has recovered a lost or under-appreciated dimension of these texts. In so doing, Rhetoric Reclaimed . . . also suggests a starting point for reassessing and renegotiating the priorities and values we have inherited from the rhetorical tradition. -Rhetorik Show Less