Aristotle's Rhetoric : an art of character / Eugene Garver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garver, Eugene.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aristotle. Rhetoric.

Aristotle.

Physical Description:

xii, 325 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Summary:

In this major contribution to philosophy and rhetoric, Eugene Garver shows how Aristotle integrates logic and virtue in his great treatise, the "Rhetoric." He raises and answers a central question: can there be a civic art of rhetoric, an art that forms the character of citizens? By demonstrating the importance of the "Rhetoric" for understanding current philosophical problems of practical reason, virtue, and character, Garver has written the first work to treat the "Rhetoric" as philosophy and to connect its themes with parallel problems in Aristotle's "Ethics" and "Politics." Garver's study will help put rhetoric at the center of investigations of practice and practical reason.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-311) and index.

ISBN:

0226284247

0226284255

OCLC:

30667654