Rhetoric and contingency : Aristotle, Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Blumenberg / DS Mayfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mayfield, D. S. (Daniel Scott), 1984- author.

Contributor:

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Contingency (Philosophy).

Rhetoric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Particularized Preface

1. Acknowledgments qua Inductive Overture

General Introduction

2. Concerning Determinism and Contingency

Theories

3. Aristotle's Contingency

4. From Aristotle to Quintilian, and Beyond

Methods

5. Induction and Contingency

Mise en Scène

6. Contingency and Cynicism in Celestina

7. Brutal Latencies. On the Crafting of Political Union

8. Otherwise. Rhetorical Techniques of Contradiction

9. Make Life Art-An Immoral Imperative

Philosophistics

10. Life Being Brief (No Need to Cut It Short)- Concerning Blumenberg's Senecan Affinities

11. Blumenberg's Rhetoric-With a Case Study on Fontane

12. Blumenberg's Fauna

13. Virtuosity and Effectuality

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 28, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Mayfield, D. S. Rhetoric and Contingency : Aristotle, Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Blumenberg

ISBN:

9783110701654

3110701650

Publisher Number:

40030337314

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Restricted for use by site license.