The Rhetorics of Thomas Hobbes and Bernard Lamy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harwood, John T.

Contributor:

Harwood, John T., Contributor.

Series:

Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oratory--Early works to 1800.

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Local Subjects:

Oratory--Early works to 1800.

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (428 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Makes accessible to modern readers the 17th-century rhetorics of Thomas Hobbes (1588-1677) and Bernard Lamy (1640-1715) Hobbes' A Briefe of the Art of Rhetorique, the first English translation of Aristotle's rhetoric, reflects Hobbes' sense of rhetoric as a central instrument of self-defense in an increasingly fractious Commonwealth. In its approach to rhetoric, which Hobbes defines as "that Faculty by which wee understand what will serve our turne, concerning any subject, to winne beliefe in the hearer," the Briefe looks forward to Hobbes'

Contents:

Cover; Also in this series; Book Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Note on the Texts; Thomas Hobbes's A Briefe of the Art of Rhetorique; Introduction; A Briefe of the Art of Rhetorique; Hobbes's Table of Contents; Book 1; Book 2; Book 3; Bernard Lamy's The Art of Speaking; Introduction; The Art of Speaking; Lamy's Table of Contents; The Preface; Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; A Discourse, in which is given an Idea of the Art of Persuasion; Index to A Brief of the Art of Rhetorique; Index to The Art of Speaking; Author Bio; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-282-13905-3

9786613808349

0-8093-8682-8

OCLC:

817796603