内容简介：
Formulating the topic for the 30th Anniversary Rhetoric Society of America Conference, "Rhetoric, the Polis and the Global Village" represents current thought on the role of rhetoric in various disciplines including topics of race, technology and religion. This book addresses the question of the polis in ancient and modern times, gradually converging with the more recent 30-year span between the decade of the Global Village and today's rhetorical rehearsals for a political global economy. It should be of interest to scholars in classical and contemporary rhetoric and related fields.