Abstract
No READER of this journal can doubt that current-traditional rhetoric, the system of that replaced the vigorous classical theory of sometime in the nineteenth century, is in a bad way. Current-traditional rhetoric refers to the appearing in the standard freshman composition texts, which concern themselves almost exclusively with prescriptions about arrangement and style, ignoring invention altogether. The poverty of current-traditional can be partially accounted for in the influence on rhetorical theory of the world-view called the of by Jacques Derrida.1 The tradition of the metaphysics of presence runs in a nearly unbroken line through Western philosophy, from Plato and Aristotle and the Christian fathers to
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