242 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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Weaver's Ethics of Rhetoric, originally published in 1953, has been called his most important statement on the ethical and cultural role of rhetoric. A strong advocate of cultural conservatism, Weaver (1910-1953) argued strongly for the role of liberal studies in the face of what he saw as the encroachments of modern scientific and technological forces in society. He was particularly opposed to... Read more
Contents: The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric. Dialectic and Rhetoric at Dayton, Tennessee. Edmund Burke and the Argument from Circumstance. Abraham Lincoln and the Argument from Definition. Some Rhetorical Aspects of Grammatical Categories. Milton's Heroic Prose. The Spaciousness of Old Rhetoric. The Rhetoric of Social Science. Ultimate Terms in Contemporary Rhetoric.
Biography
Richard M. Weaver
