A rhetoric of remnants : idiots, half-wits, and other state-sponsored inventions / Zosha Stuckey.

Albany : SUNY Press, State University of New York Press, [2014]

xi, 163 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-153) and index.

Introduction: rhetoric, historical recovery, and the New York State Asylum-School -- "Confusion into order changed" : the rhetorics that govern(ed) institutionalization -- In pursuit of the active life : the roots, rhetoric, and recursiveness of "special" (all) education -- In pursuit of the under-life of the archive -- Conclusion : "idiocy": an old, worn-out story.