The Radical Pedagogies of Socrates and Freire

S.G. (Stephen Gilbert) Brown is the author of Words in the Wilderness: Critical Literacy in the Borderlands (SUNY 2000), winner of the prestigious W. Ross Winterowd Award. He also authored The Gardens of Desire: Marcel Proust and the Fugitive Sublime (SUNY 2004). He co-edited with Sid Dobrin, Critical Ethnography: From Theory Shock to Critical Praxis (SUNY 2004), as well as edited the pocket reader, Writing Across the Curriculum (Prentice Hall, 2006). Additional books include Writing to Know and The Reader as Writer (Hayden McNeil, 2010-11). He has published numerous articles in College Literature, Journal of Advanced Composition, and Review of Education. For this distinguished body of scholarship, Prof. Brown was awarded the Barrick Award for Outstanding Scholarship (UNLV, 2007). He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Classical Rhetoric, Rhetorical Theory, Eco-Composition, and Proust. He received his BA in English from U.C.S.B., his MA and Ph.D in Rhetoric/Composition from the University of South Florida (1997). He is currently Prof. of English, Director of the Composition Program at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Introduction: Socrates and Freire: The Origins of a Genealogy 1. The Radical Critique of Radical Pedagogy: The Trial of Plato and Freire 2. The World, the Word, and the Wound: A Genealogy of Origins 3. A Radical Genealogy: Mapping Goals and Assumptions 4. The Dawn of Analysis: The Method of His Madness 5. The Signifying Hood: The Dialectics of Recantation 6. The Error of His Ways: Getting it Wrong to Get it Write 7. Plato and the Tyranny of the Transcendent: A Radical Re-Reading 8. Love in a Time of War: The Ethos of Eros 9. Radical Pedagogy Reconfigured: Toward a Neo-Humanist Pragmatism Conclusion: Ancient Rhetoric/ Radical Praxis: The Personal, the Political, and the Rhetorical References Index