{"product_id":"essays-on-aristotles-rhetoric-volume-6-paperback","title":"Essays on Aristotle's Rhetoric: Volume 6 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmélie Oksenberg Rorty\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEssays on Aristotle's\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eRhetoric\u003c\/i\u003e in its original context, providing examples of the kind of oratory whose success Aristotle explains and analyzes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eRhetoric\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is time to reclaim the Rhetoric as a philosophic work, to analyze its relation to Arstotle's ethics, politics, and poetics; his psychology and logic; his account of practical reasoning; his views on how styles of language affect persuasive arguments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmèlie Oksenberg Rorty\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of the Humanities and the History of Ideas at Brandeis University. Among the numerous other volumes she has edited are \u003ci\u003eEssays on Descartes' Meditations\u003c\/i\u003e (California, 1986), \u003ci\u003ePerspectives on Self-Deception\u003c\/i\u003e (California, 1988), and (with Martha Nussbaum), \u003ci\u003eEssays on Aristotle'sDe Anima\u003c\/i\u003e (1992).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 466\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.04 x 9.02 x 6.02 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 28, 1996\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42736936484927,"sku":"9780520202283","price":66.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/fad7900b48ef1c87580f1291f3bf8510.webp?v=1765148331","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/essays-on-aristotles-rhetoric-volume-6-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}