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Rhetorical and Critical Theory

Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought

The University of Colorado at Denver provides this index of Resources, Corollary Sites, Readings, and People (from Roland Barthes to Edward W. Said). Plenty of links to articles, home pages, glossaries, etc. can be found here.

The English Server at Carnegie-Mellon University

"A cooperative which has been publishing humanities texts online since 1990. Today it offers over 18,000 works, covering a wide range of interests." If you're interested in reading texts online (i.e., e-texts), the CMU server may help you find them.

Fragments at University of Iowa

"This is a scholar's page dedicated to discussion of critical rhetoric and ideology in the postmodern condition; to distribution of electronic versions of scholarly essays on rhetoric; and to Net resources for rhetorical study. Most resources here point Left to the posts: postmodern, poststructural, postmarx, postcolonial, postCalvin and Hobbes. You'll also find an emphasis on 1,001 uses of dead Greeks, because antiquity and postmodernity have more to do with one another than either with modernity."

A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples

 

The Marx/Engels Archive

The archive provides research material and/or general reading (i.e., e-texts). Also, you can use the archive's search engine to conduct keyword searches.

Rhetnet, A Cyberjournal for Rhetoric and Writing

This site is subdivided into twelve categories: Interversity, Net/Texts, Snapshots, Books, Reinventions, Search, Bibliographies, Essays, Quote Collage, About RhetNet, Roadmap, and Graffiti. Here is the way they describe themselves: "RhetNet is a concerted effort to see what publishing on the net might be in its ‘natural’ form. Without leaving our print heritage behind entirely, we want to adapt to the net rather than only adapting net publishing to print-based convention."

The Spoon Collective

"The Spoon Collective is a group of Net citizens devoted to free and open discussion of philosophical issues. Other than this, we have no particular philosophy or standard practices. We welcome proposals for new discussion lists, and normally suggest that such proposals be discussed on our 'list-proposals' list." If you want to join discussions on individual philosophers (e.g., Foucault, Bakhtin, Marx, Heidegger, etc.) or particular philosophical concepts/theories this site provides you with links and registration.

The Virtual Library of Philosophy at University of Bristol

"This guide is intended to provide an overview of the various Internet resources related to Philosophy" including e-texts and numerous links.