What Is Rhetoric?

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: The basic features of the history of rhetoric


• 2: The question-view of logos


• 3: Rhetoric and argumentation: the unity of the field


• 4: The common operators in figures and arguments


• 5: The argumentative structures


• 6: The elements of rhetoric ^istricto sensu: the figures of speech


• 7: The foundations of literary rhetoric


• 8: The rhetoric of the arts


• 9: The role of ethos: the voice of values


• 10: The role of pathos: from argumentative responses to feelings and emotions


• 11: The negotiation of distance or the embodiment of the interpersonal


• Conclusion


• Glossary


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Michel Meyer is Perelman Professor of Rhetoric and Argumentation at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, having previously taught at Berkeley, McGill University, the Sorbonne, and the Collège de France. He is the chief editor of the Revue Internationale de Philosophie and editor of the book series L'Interrogation Philosophique at the Presses Universitaires de France. His publications in English include Of Problematology (University of Chicago Press, 1995), and Philosophy and the Passions (Penn State University Press, 1999). He is the co-editor, with Jas Elner, of Art and Rhetoric in Roman Culture (CUP, 2014). He is the founder of a philosophy called problematology, based on the priority of questioning in thought. The main works of this radical new foundation of thought have been translated into a dozen languages.

Summary

This book offers a new unified approach to rhetoric, a means of persuading or influencing interlocutors. All the principal authors from Plato and Aristotle to contemporary theorists are integrated into Michel Meyer's 'problematological' conception of rhetoric, based on the primacy of questioning and answering in language and thought.

Product details

• Authors: Michel Meyer, Michel (Emeritus Professor of Rhetoric and Meyer, Meyer Michel
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.10.2019
• EAN: 9780198847236
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884723-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Philosophy of Language, Discourse Analysis, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Philosophy of Mind, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics, social and political philosophy, Literary studies: general, Ancient History, Political science and theory, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics