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Informationen zum Autor Amèlie Oksenberg Rorty is Professor of the Humanities and the History of Ideas at Brandeis University. Among the numerous other volumes she has edited are Essays on Descartes' Meditations (California! 1986)! Perspectives on Self-Deception (California! 1988)! and (with Martha Nussbaum)! Essays on Aristotle'sDe Anima (1992). Klappentext "Essays on Aristotle's" 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 "Rhetoric" in its original context! providing examples of the kind of oratory whose success Aristotle explains and analyzes. The 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 "Rhetoric" 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. Zusammenfassung This anthology presents Aristotle's "Rhetoric" in its original context, providing examples of the kind of oratory whose success Aristotle explains and analyzes. It assesses the role and the techniques of rhetorical persuasion in philosophic discourse and the public sphere. Inhaltsverzeichnis PREFACE I EXEMPLARY RHETORICAL SPEECHES: DEMOSTHENES, THUCYDIDES, LINCOLN Structuring Rhetoric Amelie Oksenberg Rorty Aristotle's Rhetoric as a "Counterpart" to Dialectic Jacques Brunschwig Mighty Is the Truth and It Shall Prevail? Robert Wardy Enthymeme: Aristotle on the Rationality of Rhetoric M. F. Burnyeat Is There an Ethical Dimension to Aristotelian Rhetoric? Troels Engberg-Pedersen Ethics in the Rhetoric and in the Ethics T. H. Irwin The Challenge of Rhetoric to Political and Ethical Theory in Aristotle Stephen Halliwell Philosophy, Politics, and Rhetoric in Aristotle C. D. C. Reeve Aristotle and the Emotions Stephen R. Leighton An Aristotelian Theory of the Emotions John M. Cooper Mixed Feelings in Aristotle's Rhetoric Dorothea Frede Emotions in Context: Aristotle's Treatment of the Passions in the Rhetoric and His Moral Psychology Gisela Striker Aristotle on Emotions and Rational Persuasion Martha Craven Nussbaum Between Rhetoric and Poetics Paul Ricoeur Artifice and Persuasion: The Work of Metaphor in the Rhetoric Richard Moran Rhetorical Means of Persuasion Christopher Carey The Composition and Influence of Aristotle's Rhetoric George A. Kennedy SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTRIBUTORS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABBREVIATIONS FOR ARISTOTLE'S WORKS ...
