Abstract We have been asked to engage in a conversation about the current role of ideology—as critique, as rhetoric, as a framework within which academics operate. Our approach will not seek to write the history of rhetorical critique from an ideological perspective, nor work from extant literature as one might in a traditional research essay. Still, we reference ideas emanating from that literature; instead of the normal “source citation in text,” we will list references at the end. Our ideas do not exist in a vacuum—they are stimulated by our own reading/writing in the area of ideology critique— from the original “ideological turn” to the present day. Hence it seems appropriate to acknowledge where ideas, especially about missing elements or future trajectories in research, come from. This conversation touches on the Cold War afterlife of the public as an ideological force, whiteness’s role in gatekeeping the field, and how political liberalism and those interpellated by it constrain the field’s future(s).

Research Article| May 01 1987 Richard Whately and the Revival of Logic in Nineteenth-Century England Raymie E. McKerrow Raymie E. McKerrow Dept. Speech Communication, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469 Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Rhetorica (1987) 5 (2): 163–185. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.1987.5.2.163 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Raymie E. McKerrow; Richard Whately and the Revival of Logic in Nineteenth-Century England. Rhetorica 1 May 1987; 5 (2): 163–185. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.1987.5.2.163 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search Copyright 1987, The International Society for the History of Rhetoric1987 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.