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Rhetorical Studies, Theory & Philosophy

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Rhetoric, Philosophy, and Theory

American Rhetoric
A media rich resource for rhetoric with some unique pages devoted to Movie Speeches, Rhetoric of 9/11 and Christian Rhetoric. Also features the Online Speech Bank with over 5000 full texts, audio and videos. Rhetorical Figures in Sound illustrates figures of speech in mp3 recordings. A massive effort by Michael Eidenmuller at The University of Texas at Tyler.
American Rhetorical Movements to 1900 and American Rhetorical Movements Since 1900
Meg Zulick's syllabi for her courses provide notes, bibliographies, primary texts and links.
Argumentation on the Web: Challenging Traditional Notions of Communication
Tom Formaro's Master's thesis practices what it preaches, the thesis is presented in short pages with many branching options.
Arisbe: A Home for Charles S. Peirce Studies
"A philosophical website, providing coordinated access to the resources on the internet relevant to the life, work, and continuing interest in the American philosopher, scientist, and humanist Charles Sanders Peirce." Produced by Joseph Ransdell, Emeritus Professor, Texas Tech, Department of Philosophy.
Bibliography: Resources on Narrative
Compiled by by Paul Turpin, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California
Wayne C. Booth
Confessions of an Aging, Hypocritical Ex-Missionary
Bibliography compiled by Eddie Yeghiayan
An interview with Wayne C.Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams authors of The Craft of Research
a quick chapter summary of Wayne Booth's The Rhetoric of Rhetoric by Collin Brooke, Syracuse University.
Center for Dewey Studies
A guide to the holdings of the Center, including the tables of contents of the 17 volumes of Dewey's writings.
Charles S. Pierce Studies
Includes hypertext versions of Pierces's writings and other resources.
Peirce Edition Project
Centered at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis, the project's Web site includes writings, biography, chronology and many additional resources on their links page.
Hugh Dalziel Duncan Papers
Includes his correspondence with Kenneth Burke
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
"Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas, edited by Philip P. Wiener, was published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, in 1973-74." This electronic edition can be searched and browsed.
Deconstruction: Some Assumptions
Notes on deconstruction by John Lye, Professor of English, Brock University (Canada)
Democracy: Rhetorical Texts
Robert Ivie, of Indiana University compiled this list of texts by ex-presidents, other historical figures and philosophers.
Doug Brent's Rhetoric and Communication Home Page
Essays on the Philosophy of Technology
Organized by author. Includes essays by Adorno, Baudrillard, Benjamin, etc.
Ernst Cassirer
Entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy See also entry in The Literary Encyclopedia
Ernst Cassirer and "Primeval Stupidity"
Compiled and edited by Frederick Mann
Feminist Theory
Links and original texts. Includes a page devoted to French feminist theorists.
Feminist Rhetorical Theories
Karen A. Foss, Sonja K. Foss, Cindy L. Griffin, editors Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, Inc., 1999 reviewed by Marilyn Wilt. From the Association for Feminist Anthropology Web site.
The Forest of Rhetoric: Silva Rhetoricae
A guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric by Dr. Gideon Burton, Brigham Young University
A Glossary of Literary Terms and A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
"Including an Introduction and a Self Test by Robert Harris, Professor of English at Southern California College in Costa Mesa, California Search capability and indexing by Ross Scaife, Associate Professor of Classics, University of Kentucky." Now two pages. See also A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
Guide to Philosophy on the Internet
Peter Suber, Philosophy Department, Earlham College has compiled a long list of resources.
Antonio Gramsci - Resources on
Available resources include an online searchable version of the complete Bibliografia gramsciana and the first five issues of the Newsletter of the International Gramsci Society.
A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
by Robert Harris, Professor of English at Vanguard University of Southern California in Costa Mesa, California
Hermeneutics
A page of links from the Open Directory Project, a sort of Yahoo run by volunteers, considered to be a topnotch subject index.
I.A. Richards Web Resource
Assembled by John Constable, College Lecturer in English, Magdalene College, Cambridge
In Other Words: A Lexicon of the Humanities
These areas are coved: Literary Criticism, Rhetoric, Linguistics, and Identity Politics. Areas within each discipline will include the following: 1.a basic glossary area for provisional definitions; 2.a collection of quotes from authors that illustrate the use of terms in (1); and 3.a bibliography of all works cited.
International Society for the History of Rhetoric
The Value of Knowledge: a Miniature Library of Philosophy
tracing the development of ideas on the relation between consciousness and matter through the words of 120 philosophers over 400 years by Andy Blunden.
KB Journal
"…publishes original scholarship that addresses, applies, repurposes, or challenges the teachings of Kenneth Burke, which include his major books and hundreds of articles, as well as the growing corpus of scholarship about him. Nurturing interdisciplinary understanding, development, and community across communication, composition, English, gender, literature, philosophy, psychology, sociology, technical writing, rhetoric, and more, KB Journal's mission is to build some stable knowledge to foster a better world.
KAIROS: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy
Kenneth Burke Links
A good starting place compiled and well maintained by Martin Ryder, University Colorado at Denver
Lingua MOO
"Lingua MOO was created to serve primarily the University of Texas at Dallas Rhetoric and Writing program and the School of Arts & Humanities. It serves as both a learning environment for our students and a broader community for research and collaboration on projects situated at the intersection of Arts & Humanities and electronic media."
Logical Fallacies.Info
A well cross referenced guide to logical fallacies with examples by Tim Holt.
Logical Fallacies, Stephen's Guide to
an index of fallacies with definitions, examples & proofs (counter arguments).
Marx and Engels Writings
 
Marxist Writers: A Library of the Marxists Internet Archive
In addition to Marx & Engels you can find works by many Marxist writers like William Morris, August Bebel, Eugene Debs, Clara Zetkin, Rosa Luxemburg, John Reed and Louise Bryant, Erich Fromm, Che Guevara, just to name a small number.
Metaphor Web Sites
Past Masters (U of Iowa access only)
Works of such philosophers as Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Hobbes, Mill, Bentham, Machiavelli, Rousseau, Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Wittgenstein, Peirce, Kierkegaard, A. Smith; mostly in English.
Philosophy Research Base
"This web site is a para/site research tool for the general study of (mostly) western philosophy, including sections on Existentialism, Classic American philosophy, British philosophy, Environmental philosophy, Non-western philosophy, Feminist Theory, Ecofeminism, Queer Theory, etc."
Philosophy and Rhetoric
A Project MUSE journal with full text available to institutional subscribers. Online issues go back to Volume 32, 1999. This link will only work for The University of Iowa
POROI The Prpject on Rhetoric of Inquiry
Poroi: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Rhetorical Analysis and Invention
The Pragmatism Cybrary
John Shook is still building this Web site, but a number of resources are already in place A combination of original material and links the major categories are: History of Pragmatism, Genealogies of Pragmatic Thought, Library of Living Pragmatists, Web Companion to Pragmatism, Bibliographies, and information on listservs, journals and conferences.
Pre/Text: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory
Reframing Rhetorical Theory and Practice through Feminist Perspectives
Kristen Hoerl's review of Foss, Foss and Griffin's Feminist Rhetorical Theories in The Review of Communication. 2:4 (October 2002)
Radical Constructivism
Alex Riegler, Vienna University, has constructed this useful and rich database of "papers, books, information of proponents, organizations, and other links related to the constructivist epistemology."
Rhetoric & Public Affairs
Full text of this journal is available via The University of Iowa subscription to Project Muse.
Rhetoric, etc. (UT-Arlington) Links
A mildly chaotic site by Victor Vitanza that is worth mining for some real gems.
Rhetoric Notes
Bibliographies, Issues or Concepts, Intros to Theorists, Comments by Theorists and Book Reviews compiled by Dale Sullivan, Northern Illinois University
Rhetoric Review: A journal of rhetoric and composition
Rhetoric Society of America
Rhetoric Resources on the e-server
Rhetorical Topographies
An online journal for the humanities
RhetNet: A CyberJournal
RHETNT-L (the listserv associated with RhetNet)
You can join by clicking HERE and typing in the command "sub RHETNT-L Your Name"
Saussure, Ferdinand de
Notes for her class on Modern Critical Thought by Dr. Mary Klages, Associate Professor of English, University of Colorado at Boulder
Sean's One-Stop Philosophy Shop
True to its title: Associations, Departments, Famous Philosopher's Works, Various '-isms, Real-Life Philosophers, Journals, and more.
Semiology and Rhetoric
"Form Reveals only the Ambiguity of Meaning" Semiology and Rhetoric by Paul De Man
Semiotics
A major gateway to resources on semiotics, especially theorists, compiled by Martin Ryder, University of Colorado at Denver
Semiotics for Beginners
Daniel Chandler's Web site was designed for a class he taught on Media Education at the University of Wales, Aberystyth. He eventually expanded his Web pages on Semiotics to a book, Semiotics: The Basics, published in 2002 by Routledge. Chandler is also the creator of the massive set of communication studies resources: MCS.
Society for Women in Philosophy
In addition to SWIP membership and listserv information, this site contains syllabi, bibliographies, articles, calls for papers and other resources. Created and maintained by Cynthia Freeland, U of Houston.
Toulmin: Contributions of Rhetorical Theorist Stephen E. Toulmin
Grad student Melanie Hahn constucted this outline of Toulmin's theory.
Other Toulmin links:
Faculty page, Anthropology Dept. Univ. of S. California
Homepage at The Center for Multiethnic and Transnational Studies
Stephen Toulmin: An Intellectual Odyssey By Marx W. Wartofsky
A Conversation with Stephen Toulmin By Amy Lifson
Stephen Toulmin in Foss, Foss, & Trapp, notes by Robert Trapp
Photo, 1997
Are Nation States Obsolescent?
Stephen Toulmin's The Uses of Argument: A Contextual Re-Reading
Stephen Toulmin: An Intellectual Odyssey
Bibliography of books and articles by Stephen Toulmin, from The New York Review of Books.
The Toulmin Project Home Page
What Do You Want to Know Today?
Ross Scaife at the University of Kentucky (Classics) built this specialized search page that allows you to search for rhetorical devices and literary terms, classics Web sites and much more.

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