Herbert W. Simons
Emeritus Professor of Communication, Temple University
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After Humble Irony, Then What?

My answer is to proceed intellectually from righteous indignation, through comedic self-examination, to warrantable outrage. Correspondingly, it is to move rhetorically from melodrama to high comedy to ideology critique.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Introduction

• In Praise of the Comedic Approach

• A Note on Burke's Method of Dialectics

• Comic Irony and the Problem of Warrantable Rage

• After Humble Irony, Then What?

• The Intellectual Journey

• The Artistic/Rhetorical Journey

• Philip Roth on Nixon's Funeral: An Exemplar

• Conclusion

• References
SELECTED WRITINGS
• A Dilemma-Centered Analysis of Clinton's August 17th Apologia: Implications for Rhetorical Theory and Method

• Judging A Policy Proposal By the Company It Keeps: The Gore-Perot NAFTA Debate

• Rhetoric of Inquiry as an Intellectual Movement

• Arguing About the Ethos of Past Actions: An Analysis of a Taped Conversation About a Taped Conversation

• Burke, Marx, and Warrantable Outrage

• Rhetorical Hermeneutics and the Project of Globalization

• Media & Politics

• The Rhetorical Construction of Institutional Fact: An Analysis of Social Problems Discourse

• Temple Issues Forum: Innovations in Pedagogy

• The Rhetoric of Philosophical Incommensurability

• Rhetoric of the Classroom Teacher

• Going Meta

• The RPS Approach

• Social Movements