The Sharpness of Their Knives: Interrogating The Rhetoric of Rhetoric of Science

These three collections have in common a desire to explore the limits of rhetoric of science, to probe its weaknesses and test its strengths; the editors leave it to their readers to judge if the business of rhetoric of science can continue in its usual way. 1 Campbell and Benson observe, in a review of one of these books and with what I interpret as just a hint of regret, that it "returns us to the world of rhetorical analysts interested as much in the sharpness of their knives as in any object that( ... ) might be used to carve" (p. 83 ), and this same observation rings true for each of these collec-