Rhetoric and Kairos: Essays in History, Theory, and Praxis Book

	Acknowledgments
	Foreword
	Introduction: The Ancient Concept of Kairos	1
	A New Chapter in the History of Rhetoric and Sophistry	23
	Time and Qualitative Time	46
	Kairos in Classical and Modern Rhetorical Theory	58
	Inventional Constraints on the Technographers of Ancient Athens: A Study of Kairos	77
	Kairos in Gorgias' Rhetorical Compositions	89
	Hippocrates, Kairos, and Writing in the Sciences	97
	Kairos: The Rhetoric of Time and Timing in the New Testament	114
	Kairos and Decorum: Crassus Orator's Speech de lege Servilia	128
	Ciceronian Decorum and the Temporalities of Renaissance Rhetoric	138
	Chronos, Kairos, Aion: Failures of Decorum, Right-Timing, and Revenge in Shakespeare's Hamlet	165
	Ralph Waldo Emerson and the American Kairos	187
	In Praise of Kairos in the Arts: Critical Time, East and West	199
	Changing Times in Composition Classes: Kairos, Resonance, and the Pythagorean Connection	211
	On Doing the Right Thing at the Right Time: Toward an Ethics of Kairos	226
	A Bibliography on Kairos and Related Concepts	237
	Contributors	247
	Index	249