The promise of reason : studies in The new rhetoric / edited by John T. Gage.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gage, John T., 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Academic writing.

Language and logic.

Reasoning.

Rhetoric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No single work is more responsible for the heightened interest in argumentation and informal reasoning and their relation to ethics and jurisprudence in the late twentieth century than Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca s monumental study of argumentation, "La Nouvelle Rhetorique: Traite de l'Argumentation." Published in 1958 and translated into English as "The New Rhetoric" in 1969, this influential volume returned the study of reason to classical concepts of rhetoric. In The Promise of Reason: Studies in The New Rhetoric, leading scholars of rhetoric Barbara Warnick, Jeanne Fahnestock, Alan G. Gross, Ray D. Dearin, and James Crosswhite are joined by prominent and emerging European and American scholars from different disciplines to demonstrate the broad scope and continued relevance of "The New Rhetoric" more than fifty years after its initial publication. Divided into four sections Conceptual Understandings of The New Rhetoric, Extensions of "The New Rhetoric," The Ethical Turn in Perelman and "The New Rhetoric," and Uses of "The New Rhetoric" this insightful volume covers a wide variety of topics. It includes general assessments of "The New Rhetoric" and its central concepts, as well as applications of those concepts to innovative areas in which argumentation is being studied, such as scientific reasoning, visual media, and literary texts. Additional essays compare Perelman s ideas with those of other significant thinkers like Kenneth Burke and Richard McKeon, explore his career as a philosopher and activist, and shed new light on Perelman and Olbrechts- Tyteca s collaboration. Two contributions present new scholarship based on recent access to letters, interviews, and archival materials housed in the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. Among the volume s unique gifts is a personal memoir from Perelman s daughter, Noemi Perelman Mattis, published here for the first time. "The Promise of Reason," expertly compiled and edited by John T. Gage, is the first to investigate the pedagogical implications of Perelman and Olbrechts- Tyteca s groundbreaking work and will lead the way to the next generation of argumentation studies."

Contents:

Intro

Book Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introductory Essays

1. Introduction

2. Chaïm Perelman: A Life Well Lived

Section One: Conceptual Understandings of The New Rhetoric

3. Empiricism, Securement, and The New Rhetoric

4. "No Neutral Choices": The Art of Style in The New Rhetoric

5. The Function of the "Universal Audience" in Perelman's Rhetoric: Looking Back on a Theoretical Issue

6. Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's New Rhetoric

Section Two: Extensions of The New Rhetoric

7. Solving the Mystery of Presence: Verbal/Visual Interaction in Darwin's Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs

8. Kenneth Burke's "Identification" and Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's "Communion": A Case of Convergent Evolution?

9. Language and Axiological Rationality: The "Non-thought" of French Linguistics in the Mirror of The New Rhetoric

Section Three: The Ethical Turn in Perelman and The New Rhetoric

10. Perelman on Democracy as a Confused Notion

11. Philosophical Art or Rhetorical Skill: How Perelman's Ethical Pluralism Makes McKeon's Analytical Pluralism Ethically Conscientious

12. RhETHorICS

Section Four: Uses of The New Rhetoric

13. Awakening the Topoi: Sources of Invention in The New Rhetoric's Argument Model

14. Analogical Reasoning in the Teaching of Science: The Case of Richard Feynman's Physics

15. From Laconic Apothegms to Film Quotations: Rhetorical Advantages of Shared Paroemiai

16. A Timeless Attack: Essence and Definition Arguments in Leo Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God Is Within You

Contributors

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Perelman, Chaim. New rhetoric.

ISBN:

1-280-69688-5

9786613673848

0-8093-8628-3

OCLC:

784953115