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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

TOC

  • 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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