Essays on Aristotle's Rhetoric |
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| Editor:
| Rorty, Amélie Oksenberg
Rorty, Amélie Oksenberg |
| Series title: | Philosophical Traditions (Formerly Major Thinkers) Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-520-20228-3 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 1996 |
| Publisher: | University of California Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $60.95 |
Book Description:
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Essays on Aristotle's Rhetoric offers a fresh and comprehensive assessment of a classic work. Aristotle's influence on the practice and theory of rhetoric, as it affects political and legal argumentation, has been continuous and far-reaching. This anthology presents Aristotle's
Rhetoric in its original context, providing examples of the kind of oratory whose success Aristotle explains and analyzes. The contributors--eminent philosophers,...
More Description Essays on Aristotle's Rhetoric offers a fresh and comprehensive assessment of a classic work. Aristotle's influence on the practice and theory of rhetoric, as it affects political and legal argumentation, has been continuous and far-reaching. This anthology presents Aristotle's Rhetoric in its original context, providing examples of the kind of oratory whose success Aristotle explains and analyzes.
The contributors--eminent philosophers, classicists, and critics--assess the role and the techniques of rhetorical persuasion in philosophic discourse and in the public sphere. They connect Aristotle's Rhetoric to his other work on ethics and politics, as well as to his ideas on logic, psychology, and philosophy of language. The collection as a whole invites us to reassess the place of rhetoric in intellectual and political life.