In reflecting on last class I realize you covered quite a lot of ground in terms of finding new ways of inquiring into the "Authorship and Influence" conversation.
For example, by examining the central role of the "Okyeame/communication person" in Molefi Asante's Afrocentric communication theory, you have enabled us to ask a different set of questions about Plato's "speech-writer" and Aristotle's "rhetor":
- What integrative processes could these characters have facilitated (if any) in Plato's and Aristotle's theories?
- What were their most critical debates about the nature of society?
- What are the possibilities for meta-commentary in The Phaedrus or On Rhetoric (i.e., is it possible that Plato's "speech-writer" and Aristotle's "rhetor" might play the role of meta-commentator in their respective texts)?
- What are the ways in which we might read The Phaedrus or Rhetoric as nationalistic projects?
