Rhetoric
by Renato Barilli
University of Minnesota Press, 1989
Paper: 978-0-8166-1729-6
Library of Congress Classification PN183.B313 1989
Dewey Decimal Classification 808.009
Paper: 978-0-8166-1729-6
Library of Congress Classification PN183.B313 1989
Dewey Decimal Classification 808.009
TOC
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1.
- The Greeks
- Beginnings: The Sophists
- Plato: episteme versus doxa
- Aristotle's Rhetoric between Form and Content
- The Quasi-Logical Aspects of Aristotle's Rhetoric
- Lexis and the Comical
- Further Developments, the Anonymous Sublime
- 2.
- The Romans
- Beginnings: Rhetorica ad Herennium and De inventione
- Cicero and the Primacy of Rhetoric
- Dialogus de oratoribus
- Quintilian's Institutio oratorio
- 3.
- The Middle Ages
- The Church Fathers and Saint Augustine
- Boethius and Scholasticism
- Dialectic in the Thirteenth Century
- The Technical Character of the artes rhetoricae in the Late Middle Ages: Dante
- 4.
- Humanism and the Renaissance
- Motifs of Early Humanism: The Circle and the Center
- Lorenzo Valla's Conception of Rhetoric and Dialectic
- From a Return to Platonism to the Triumph of Ciceronianism
- The Humanists' Rehabilitation of Dialectic: Ramism
- First Signs of Modernity and the Decline of Rhetoric
- 5.
- Early Modernity
- Rhetoric during the Baroque
- Descartes, Pascal and Leibniz
- Bacon and Empiricism
- Vico: The “Particular” of Rhetoric and the “Universal” of Logic
- Sensationalism: Words versus Terms
- 6.
- Modernity
- Kant's Search for a Mittelglied
- Hegel and the Overcoming of Rhetoric
- Between Romanticism and Positivism
- Croce's Severe Critique
- 7.
- The Contemporary Revival of Rhetoric
- Critique of the True and the Return to Probability
- Perelman's Theory of Argumentation
- The Microrhetoric of Freud and Saussure
- Rhetoric and Literature: The Synthetic Line of Anglo-American Criticism
- Rhetoric and Literature—The “Analytic” Line: From the Russian Formalists to the Nouvelle Critique
- Rhetoric and Technological Media: Marshall McLuhan
- Conclusion: The Present Vitality of Rhetoric
- Suggested Reading
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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