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Choosing Between Isocrates and Aristotle: Disciplinary Assumptions and Pedagogical Implications

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From: Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Date: 20060401
Author:Haskins, Ekaterina

This essay examines several disciplinary and pedagogical assumptions behind Aristotle's centrality in the classical rhetorical canon and calls for a reconsideration of the established hierarchical relation of Aristotle to Isocrates.

Introduction

I was invited to speak at the Revisionist Classical Rhetorics symposium as someone implicated in "reconfiguring the established hierarchical relation of Aristotle to Isocrates." Despite several recent attempts to revive Isocrates as a classical figure worthy of attention, his name still appears as a footnote to Plato and Aristotle in most disciplinary ...

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