Abstract
Through the work of Walter Ong, this project examines how shifting educational priorities and new ways of managing information have contributed to the decline of agonistic practices. Specifically, the spread of vernacular education and the spread of visual methodization of language, developed by Peter Ramus, contributed to this decline. Ramist method elevated dialectic above rhetoric, lessening the need to engage in verbal “combat” to determine meaning or build consensus. Ong’s work reminds us that agonistic challenges can help us to explore ambiguity and enhance mutual understanding without the necessity of achieving definitional certainty.
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