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Title: Explorations in rhetoric: Studies in honor of Douglas Ehninger by Ray E. McKerrow ISBN: 0-673-15518-8 Publisher: Scott, Foresman Pub. Date: 1982 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95

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Summary: Explorations on how we set out to build a rhetorical theory
Comment: As Marilyn J. Vangraber's dedication points out, the essays collected in this volume is less "in memory of" and more "because of" Douglas Ehninger (1913-79). The nine essays are all written by students and colleagues of Ehninger, who had ended his distinuished career at the University of Iowa: (1) Michael McGuire, "The Structural Study of Speech," synthesizes mechanical and empirical models of reality as they converge in language, which therefore becomes the nexus of both empirical and social reality; (2) Michael Calvin McGee, "A Materialist's Conception of Rhetoric," argues for a materialist approach that would dervie rhetorical theory entirely from practice; (3) Samuel D. Watson, Jr., "Polanyi's Epistemology of Good Reason," offers another synthesis, this time of Michael Polanyi's views concerning human reason that gives to "knowledge" more reliability than can actually be justified; (4) Richard A. Cherwitz & James W. Hikins, "John Stuart Mill's Doctrine of Assurance as a Rhetorical Epistemology," brings Mill into the debate to consider how the belief system accepted in social reality represents more than mere consensus; (5) Bruce E. Gronbeck, "On Classes of Inference and Force," makes a compelling argument for how premises can "force" conclusions and looks at the nature of inference-making; (6) Donovan J. Ochs, "Cicero's "Topica": A Process View of Invention"considres the problem of how rhetorical knowledge is generated and of how argument is formed from the historical perspective of Cicero's writings; (7) Eric Wm. Skopec, "The Theory of Expression in Selected Eighteenth-Century Rhetorics," looks at the rhetoric-as-expression emphasis developed by the Romantic movememnt in Britain; (8) Ray E. McKerrow, "Whately's Theory of Rhetoric," reasses teh importance of Richard Whateley in terms of not only his influence on 20th-century views of argument but also the nature of rhetorical knowledge; (9) James L. Golden & Josina M. Makau, "Perspective on Judicial Reasoning," considers rhetorical knowledge from the specific perspective of legal reasoning, using both Toulmin and Perelman to critique the decisions of hte Supreme Court. In his introduction, Michael Osborn makes the case for what Ehninger would have thought of the arguments presented in this volume, which, rather surprisingly, manage to address a common theme. It is a shame this book is out of print, because it contains several of the better think pieces on rhetoric since the writers were unencumbered by the necessity of making journal editors happy.