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The Radical Pedagogies of Socrates and Freire Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication 1 Rhetorics, Literacies, and Narratives of Sustainability Edited by Peter N. Goggin 2 Queer Temporalities in Gay Male Representation Tragedy, Normativity, and Futurity Dustin Bradley Goltz 3 The Rhetoric of Intellectual Property Copyright Law and the Regulation of Digital Culture Jessica Reyman 4 Media Representations of Gender and Torture Post-9/11 Marita Gronnvoll 5 Rhetoric, Remembrance, and Visual Form Sighting Memory Edited by Anne Teresa Demo and Bradford Vivian 6 Reading, Writing, and the Rhetorics of Whitenes Ian Marshall and Wendy Ryden 7 Radical Pedagogies of Socrates and Freire Ancient Rhetoric/Radical Praxis S.G. Brown The Radical Pedagogies of Socrates and Freire Ancient Rhetoric/Radical Praxis S.G. Brown NEW YORK LONDON First published 2012 by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2012 Taylor & Francis The right of S.G. Brown to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Typeset in Sabon by IBT Global. Printed and bound in the United States of America on acid-free paper by IBT Global. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Brown, S. G. The radical pedagogies of Socrates & Freire : ancient rhetoric/radical praxis / by S. G. Brown. p. cm. — (Routledge studies in rhetoric and communication ; 7) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Rhetoric, Ancient. 2. Critical pedagogy. 3. Socrates—Criticism and interpretation. 4. Freire, Paulo, 1921–1997—Criticism and interpretation. 5. Radicalism in literature. I. Title. PA3265.B67 2011 370.1—dc23 2011018282 ISBN13: 978-0-415-89792-1 (hbk) ISBN13: 978-0-203-33412-6 (ebk) To all those teachers who by breaking down the walls between classroom and community free the self into the public domain, The Word into the World, and knowledge bound in books into a reality forever changed by this communion. Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Socrates and Freire—The Origins of a Genealogy 1 1 The Radical Critique of Radical Pedagogy: The Trial of Plato and Freire 6 2 The World, the Word, and the Wound: A Genealogy of Origins 20 3 A Radical Genealogy: Mapping Goals and Assumptions 44 4 The Dawn of Analysis: The Method of His Madness 61 5 The Signifying Hood: The Dialectics of Recantation 90 6 The Error of His Ways: Getting It Wrong to Get It Write 121 7 Plato and the Tyranny of the Transcendent: A Radical Re-Reading 139 8 Love in a Time of War: The Ethos of Eros 163 9 Radical Pedagogy Reconfi gured: Toward a Neo-Humanist Pragmatism 187 Conclusion: Ancient Rhetoric/Radical Praxis— The Personal, the Political, and the Rhetorical 209 Works Cited 213 Index 217 Acknowledgments A book, any book, is largely a labor of love enacted by an individual but enabled by the helping hands of many others. The Radical Pedagogies of Socrates and Freire is no exception. This book had a long gestation period, insofar as its genesis is rooted in my M.A. thesis on Plato’s Phaedrus (1993) and my dissertation on Freire (1997). The thought of reading one through the lens of the other, however, did not occur until quite recently. Like the two teachers whose work it celebrates, this book drew inspira- tion from teacher/scholars whose work inspired my own. At the University of California, Santa Barbara, they include Douwe Sturman and Frederick Turner III. At the University of Hawai’i, Hilo, William Carse. At the Uni- versity of South Florida, Gary A. Olson and Philip Sipiora, who height- ened my appreciation and interest in the works of Paulo Freire and Plato, as embodied in Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Phaedrus, respectively. I owe a special debt of gratitude to Professor Olson, for directing my dis- sertation, which drew deeply on the work of Paulo Freire. At the Univer- sity of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), I want to express my gratitude for the enabling encouragement of my colleagues and department chairs, and of Chris Hudgins, Doug Unger, Richard Harp, Tim Erwin, and John Unrue, in particular, all of whom offered guiding words along the way. At UNLV, I also owe a special debt of gratitude to the students in my graduate seminars, who sparked lively conversations on the works of Plato and Freire: exchanges which were important in the development of this comparative study and which enabled me to experiment and hone my own ideas in “conversation” with theirs. Two, in particular, deserve special mention: Homer Simms and Cara Minardi, whose dissertation, “Re-Mem- bering Ancient Women: Hypatia of Alexandria and Her Communities,” infl uenced my thinking regarding Plato’s mother, Perictione. At UNLV, I also want to give special thanks for the skilled guidance of research librar- ian, Priscilla Finley. This brings me to that broader community of colleagues whose work and careers have, in important ways, infl uenced and intersected my own. This book, in many ways, is the offspring of a critical “conversation” with these important works, by which it was infl uenced and without which

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