Essays on Aristotle's Rhetoric
1st Edition
Published on 28. February 1996
Book
Hardback
466 pages
978-0-520-20227-6 (ISBN)
Description
Essays on Aristotle's Rhetoric" offers a fresh and com-prehensive 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 analyses. 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.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
816 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-20227-6 (9780520202276)
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Amelie Oksenberg Rorty is Professor of the Humanities and the History of Ideas at Brandeis University. Among the numerous other volumes she has edited are Essays on Descartes' Meditations (California, 1986), Perspectives on Self-Deception (California, 1988), and (with Martha Nussbaum), Essays on Aristotle'sDe Anima (1992).
Content
PREFACE I
EXEMPLARY RHETORICAL SPEECHES:
DEMOSTHENES, THUCYDIDES, LINCOLN
Structuring Rhetoric
Amelie Oksenberg Rorty
Aristotle's Rhetoric as a "Counterpart" to Dialectic
Jacques Brunschwig
Mighty Is the Truth and It Shall Prevail?
Robert Wardy
Enthymeme: Aristotle on the Rationality of Rhetoric
M. F. Burnyeat
Is There an Ethical Dimension to Aristotelian Rhetoric?
Troels Engberg-Pedersen
Ethics in the Rhetoric and in the Ethics
T. H. Irwin
The Challenge of Rhetoric to Political and Ethical Theory in Aristotle
Stephen Halliwell
Philosophy, Politics, and Rhetoric in Aristotle
C. D. C. Reeve
Aristotle and the Emotions
Stephen R. Leighton
An Aristotelian Theory of the Emotions
John M. Cooper
Mixed Feelings in Aristotle's Rhetoric
Dorothea Frede
Emotions in Context: Aristotle's Treatment of the Passions
in the Rhetoric and His Moral Psychology
Gisela Striker
Aristotle on Emotions and Rational Persuasion
Martha Craven Nussbaum
Between Rhetoric and Poetics
Paul Ricoeur
Artifice and Persuasion: The Work of Metaphor in the Rhetoric
Richard Moran
Rhetorical Means of Persuasion
Christopher Carey
The Composition and Influence of Aristotle's Rhetoric
George A. Kennedy
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
CONTRIBUTORS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABBREVIATIONS FOR ARISTOTLE'S WORKS
EXEMPLARY RHETORICAL SPEECHES:
DEMOSTHENES, THUCYDIDES, LINCOLN
Structuring Rhetoric
Amelie Oksenberg Rorty
Aristotle's Rhetoric as a "Counterpart" to Dialectic
Jacques Brunschwig
Mighty Is the Truth and It Shall Prevail?
Robert Wardy
Enthymeme: Aristotle on the Rationality of Rhetoric
M. F. Burnyeat
Is There an Ethical Dimension to Aristotelian Rhetoric?
Troels Engberg-Pedersen
Ethics in the Rhetoric and in the Ethics
T. H. Irwin
The Challenge of Rhetoric to Political and Ethical Theory in Aristotle
Stephen Halliwell
Philosophy, Politics, and Rhetoric in Aristotle
C. D. C. Reeve
Aristotle and the Emotions
Stephen R. Leighton
An Aristotelian Theory of the Emotions
John M. Cooper
Mixed Feelings in Aristotle's Rhetoric
Dorothea Frede
Emotions in Context: Aristotle's Treatment of the Passions
in the Rhetoric and His Moral Psychology
Gisela Striker
Aristotle on Emotions and Rational Persuasion
Martha Craven Nussbaum
Between Rhetoric and Poetics
Paul Ricoeur
Artifice and Persuasion: The Work of Metaphor in the Rhetoric
Richard Moran
Rhetorical Means of Persuasion
Christopher Carey
The Composition and Influence of Aristotle's Rhetoric
George A. Kennedy
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
CONTRIBUTORS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABBREVIATIONS FOR ARISTOTLE'S WORKS