Essays on Aristotle′s Rhetoric (Paper)

1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-0-520-20228-3
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 466 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 698 g

Reihe: Philosophical Traditions

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rorty, Amelie Oksenberg

Rorty, Amélie Oksenberg

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Amèlie 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).