Arthur Walzer

Communication Studies

225 Ford Hall

224 Church St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Collegiate Affiliation

My scholarship centers on the history of rhetoric, especially rhetoric in Ancient Athens and Rome and British rhetoric during the Renaissance and Enlightenment. I am currently working on the Renaissance writer Thomas Elyot (1490-1546). I have also long been interested in ethical concerns that rhetorical discourse raises.

Specialties

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Specialties

History of Rhetoric
Rhetoric and Ethics, Moral Philosophy
Civic Rhetoric
Eighteenth-Century Rhetoric
Classical Rhetoric
Renaissance Rhetoric

Publications

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Publications

George Campbell: Rhetoric in the Age of Enlightenment. State University of New York Press, Walzer, Arthur, 2002.
Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition. Richard Graff and Janet Atwill, State University of New York Press, Walzer, Arthur, 2005.
Rereading Aristotle's Rhetoric.. Alan Gross and Michael Tiffany, Southern Illinois University Press, Walzer, Arthur, 2000.
"Parrēsia, Foucault, and the Classical Rhetorical Tradition." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 43 (2013):1-21. (Winner: Kneupper Award for Best Article in RSQ, 2013; selected for inclusion in Best Essays in RSQ, 1968-2018)
“Rhetoric of Counsel in Thomas Elyot’s Pasquil the Playne.” Rhetorica 30 (2012): 1-21.
“The Rhetoric of Counsel and Thomas Elyot’s Of the Knowledge that Maketh a Wise Man.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 45 (2012): 24-45.
With Robert Sullivan. "Thomas Elyot, Rhetoric and Counsel: Critical Editions of Doctrinal of Princes, Pasquill the Playne, Of the Knowledge Which Maketh a Wise Man, and Defence of Good Women." Brill: International Society for the History of Rhetoric Series,.

Activities

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Activities

Professional

Board Member: Rhetoric Society of America. 2010 - 2013
Treasurer: International Society for History of Rhetoric. 2011 - 2018
Editor: Advances in the History of Rhetoric. 2014 - 2018
Board Member: International Society for History of Rhetoric. 2005-2009 -

Awards

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Awards

Fellow, Rhetoric Society of America: for Contributions to the Study of Rhetoric, 2004
Distinguished Teacher Award, College of Ag, University of Minnesota, 1991
Kneupper Award, Best Essay in RSQ, 2013

Courses

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Courses

Perspectives on Ethics,RhetoricClassical, Modern, Postmodern:
Perspectives on Knowledge, Power, Rhetoric in 18th Century
Rhetorical Theory: Classical Era
Rhetorical Theory: Modern Era
Rhetorical Fictions and 20th Century Conflicts