358 Pages
by
Routledge
358 Pages
by
Routledge
358 Pages
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Routledge
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In the articles collected here Nancy Struever explores the basic assumption that rhetoric is not simply a bag of persuasive tricks, but functions, necessarily, as a mode of inquiry investigating not simply the mechanics of production and reception of discourse, but the psychological factors of reason and passion engaged by the assertion, modification, and contest of beliefs and dispositions of the... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Part 1 Rhetoric as Inquiry: The pertinence of rhetorical theory and practice for current Vichian scholarship; Topics in history; Subtilitas applicandi in rhetorical hermeneutics: Pierce's gloss and Kelly's example; Dilthey's Hobbes and Cicero's rhetoric; Political rhetoric and rhetorical politics in Juan Luis Vives (1492-1540); Alltäglichkeit, timefullness in the Heideggerian program; Historical priorities. Part 2 The Rhetoric of Genres: Lorenzo Valla: humanist rhetoric and the critique of the classical languages of morality; Fables of power; Proverbial signs: formal strategies in Guicciardini's Ricordi; Pasquier's Recherches de la France: the exemplarity of his medieval sources; Shakespeare and rhetoric; The conversable world: 18th-century transformations of the relation of rhetoric and truth; Ethos and pathos in Ruskin's rhetoric; Florence and his aesthetic politics; Rhetoric: time, memory, memoir. Part 3 Rhetoric and the Disciplines: Petrarch's Invective contra medicum: an early confrontation of rhetoric and medicine; Rhetoric and medicine in Descartes' Passions de l'âme: the issue of intervention; Lionardo di Capoa's Parere (1681): a legal opinion on the use of Aristotle in medicine; Hobbes and Vico on law: a rhetorical gloss; Index.
Biography
Nancy S. Struever is Professor Emerita in the Humanities Center, The Johns Hopkins University, USA
’For a resource on the application of rhetoric as a mode of historical inquiry, this collection offers a plethora of case studies.’ Metapsychology
