
Promise of Reason
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Content
- Intro
- Book Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introductory Essays
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Chaïm Perelman: A Life Well Lived
- Section One: Conceptual Understandings of The New Rhetoric
- 3. Empiricism, Securement, and The New Rhetoric
- 4. "No Neutral Choices": The Art of Style in The New Rhetoric
- 5. The Function of the "Universal Audience" in Perelman's Rhetoric: Looking Back on a Theoretical Issue
- 6. Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's New Rhetoric
- Section Two: Extensions of The New Rhetoric
- 7. Solving the Mystery of Presence: Verbal/Visual Interaction in Darwin's Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs
- 8. Kenneth Burke's "Identification" and Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's "Communion": A Case of Convergent Evolution?
- 9. Language and Axiological Rationality: The "Non-thought" of French Linguistics in the Mirror of The New Rhetoric
- Section Three: The Ethical Turn in Perelman and The New Rhetoric
- 10. Perelman on Democracy as a Confused Notion
- 11. Philosophical Art or Rhetorical Skill: How Perelman's Ethical Pluralism Makes McKeon's Analytical Pluralism Ethically Conscientious
- 12. RhETHorICS
- Section Four: Uses of The New Rhetoric
- 13. Awakening the Topoi: Sources of Invention in The New Rhetoric's Argument Model
- 14. Analogical Reasoning in the Teaching of Science: The Case of Richard Feynman's Physics
- 15. From Laconic Apothegms to Film Quotations: Rhetorical Advantages of Shared Paroemiai
- 16. A Timeless Attack: Essence and Definition Arguments in Leo Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God Is Within You
- Contributors
- Index
- Back Cover
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