What is Rhetoric? by Michel Meyer (English) Hardcover Book

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This book offers a new unified approach to rhetoric, a means of persuading or influencing interlocutors. All the principal authors from Plato and Aristotle to contemporary theorists are integrated into Michel Meyer's 'problematological' conception of rhetoric, based on the primacy of questioning and answering in language and thought.

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This book offers a new approach to the principles and functioning of rhetoric. In everyday life, we often debate issues or simply discuss questions. Rhetoric is the way in which we answer questions in an interpersonal context, when we want to have an effect on those with whom we are communicating. They can be convinced or charmed, persuaded or influenced, and the language used can range from reasoning to the sharing of narratives, literary or otherwise. What isRhetoric? provides a breakthrough in the field, offering a systematic and unified view of the topic. The book combines the social aspects of rhetoric, such as the negotiation of distance between speakers,with the theory of emotions. All the principal authors from Plato and Aristotle to contemporary theorists are integrated into Michel Meyer's 'problematological' conception of rhetoric, based on the primacy of questioning and answering in language and thought.

Author Biography

Michel Meyer is Perelman Professor of Rhetoric and Argumentation at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, having previously taught at Berkeley, McGill University, the Sorbonne, and the Collège de France. He is the chief editor of the Revue Internationale de Philosophie and editor of the book series L'Interrogation Philosophique at the Presses Universitaires de France. His publications in English include Of Problematology(University of Chicago Press, 1995), and Philosophy and the Passions (Penn State University Press, 1999). He is the co-editor, with Ja's Elsner, of Art and Rhetoric in Roman Culture (CUP, 2014). He is the founder of a philosophy calledproblematology, based on the priority of questioning in thought. The main works of this radical new foundation of thought have been translated into a dozen languages.

Table of Contents

Introduction1: The basic features of the history of rhetoric2: The question-view of logos3: Rhetoric and argumentation: the unity of the field4: The common operators in figures and arguments5: The argumentative structures6: The elements of rhetoric istricto sensu: the figures of speech7: The foundations of literary rhetoric8: The rhetoric of the arts9: The role of ethos: the voice of values10: The role of pathos: from argumentative responses to feelings and emotions11: The negotiation of distance or the embodiment of the interpersonalConclusionGlossary

Long Description

This book offers a new approach to the principles and functioning of rhetoric. In everyday life, we often debate issues or simply discuss questions. Rhetoric is the way in which we answer questions in an interpersonal context, when we want to have an effect on those with whom we are communicating. They can be convinced or charmed, persuaded or influenced, and the language used can range from reasoning to the sharing of narratives, literary or otherwise. What isRhetoric? provides a breakthrough in the field, offering a systematic and unified view of the topic. The book combines the social aspects of rhetoric, such as the negotiation of distance between speakers, with the theory of emotions. All the principal authors from Plato and Aristotle to contemporarytheorists are integrated into Michel Meyer's 'problematological' conception of rhetoric, based on the primacy of questioning and answering in language and thought.

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The first account in English of the view of this major theorist of rhetoricOffers a novel unified view of rhetoric using the author's 'problematological' approachBrings together a range of different disciplines including linguistics, philosophy, and political scienceExamines historical and contemporary approaches

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Introduction 1. The basic features of the history of rhetoric 2. The question-view of logos 3. Rhetoric and argumentation: the unity of the field 4. The common operators in figures and arguments 5. The argumentative structures 6. The elements of rhetoric istricto sensu: the figures of speech 7. The foundations of literary rhetoric 8. The rhetoric of the arts 9. The role of ethos: the voice of values 10. The role of pathos: from argumentative responses to feelings and emotions 11. The negotiation of distance or the embodiment of the interpersonal Conclusion Glossary

Details ISBN0199691827 Author Michel Meyer Publisher Oxford University Press Year 2017 ISBN-10 0199691827 ISBN-13 9780199691821 Format Hardcover Imprint Oxford University Press Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 808 Media Book Position Emeritus Professor of Rhetoric and Philosophy Affiliation Emeritus Professor of Rhetoric and Philosophy, Universite Libre de Bruxelles Language English Publication Date 2017-08-10 UK Release Date 2017-08-10 NZ Release Date 2017-08-10 Alternative 9780198847236 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2017-08-23 Pages 268 We've got this

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