Now Don't Try to Reason with Me - Essays and Ironies for a Credulous Age

Preface ix The New Credulity and the New Rhetoric 3(76) ``Now Don't Try to Reason with Me!'': Rhetoric Today, Left, Right, and Center 5(20) The Rhetorical Stance 25(10) The Revival of Rhetoric 35(12) Censorship and the Values of Fiction 47(16) The Uncritical American: or, Nobody's from Missouri Any More 63(16) Of the Rational Persuasion 79(94) Knowledge and Opinion 81(12) The Ontological Proof 93(10) How Not to Use Aristotle: The Poetics 103(14) How to Use Aristotle 117(14) Pluralism and Its Rivals 131(20) The Rhetoric of Fiction and the Poetics of Fictions 151(22) The Last True Church 173(92) The College as Church: or, Screwtape Revived 175(12) Mr. Gradgrind, 1965 187(10) The Luxury of Liberal Learning 197(12) Reason and Emotion in Education 209(8) The University and Public Issues 217(8) The Compleat Equivocator: or, How the Dean Entered with Unqualified Sympathy into Many Different and Utterly Contradictory Intellectual Positions and Emerged Smelling Like a Rose 225(18) The Power to Be a University 243(22) Ironies and the New Science of Ironology 265(78) Farkism and Hyperyorkism 267(6) Thomas Mann and Eighteenth-Century Comic Fiction 273(14) Dawn, Delight, Dew, Dove 287(8) The Art of Sinking in Prose, by Professor John R. Buthnot, Ph.D. 295(18) Einstein, Elevators, The Fourth Dimension, and the Doppler Effect: A Humanities Professor Who Keeps up on Things Lectures on Recent Developments in Space 313(6) Lady Chatterley's Lover and the Tachistoscope 319(8) The First Full Professor of Ironology in the World 327(8) Rafferty on Rafferty: A Review of Max Rafferty on Education 335(8) Last Days 343(32) The Golden Rule Revisited: A Sermon to One Hundred and Twenty-Two Sinful Seniors Being Graduated into a Sinful Society 349(12) The Worst Thing That Can Happen to a Man 361(14) The Author of the Single Standard 375