Title
On Being a Simple Judge: Exploring Rhetorical Citizenship in Aristotelian and Homeric Rhetorics
Abstract
If we want to make the argument that rhetoric matters to citizenship and that the two - rhetoric and citizenship - are mutually benefitted by their exchanges, then we need to deal with this charge of citizens as simpletons that rings through the rhetorical tradition. We need to go to these other places. In juxtaposition with an approach relegating classical conceptions of agency and audience as outdated and over, I wish in this essay to avoid such a negative approach, or perhaps I should say such a "negating" choice. I wish to take being simple as a citizen judge creatively. Rather than negating citizen judges as simpletons, might we create something new? In this essay, I wish to try.
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2014
Publisher Statement
Copyright © 2014 Leiden University Press. This chapter first appeared in Contemporary Rhetorical Citizenship.
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Recommended Citation
Mifsud, Mari Lee. "On Being a Simple Judge: Exploring Rhetorical Citizenship in Aristotelian and Homeric Rhetorics." In Contemporary Rhetorical Citizenship, edited by Christian Kock and Lisa Villadsen, 223-38. Chicago: Leiden University Press, 2014.