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2025, Journal for the History of Rhetoric

any of us were introduced to the history of Mediterranean, European, and North American rhetorics via Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg's The Rhetorical Tradition (1990Tradition ( /2020)), now in its third edition. As of yet, however, there have been no similar anthologies for the history of non-Western rhetorics. Because of this, students continue to come to non-Western rhetorics indirectly, and instructors must build the road as they travel. For example, I have asked students to read from open-source texts such as

2025, Ancient Philosophy Today: DIALOGOI

In this paper I contrast different versions of Greek rhetoric that in the late Hellenistic period were exported to Rome by both rhetoricians and philosophers, and show how with regard to Roman law these versions differed in aim and in application. With regard to the application in law, I argue that in Rome's unique practice of resolving disputes between citizensi.e. done with the help of specialiststhe Stoic conception of rhetoric as the longer, explanatory version of dialectic, aiming at what is correct and true, was useful in conveying the correct answer to nonspecialists, the judge included, whereas the Academics', and more specifically Philo of Larissa's, conception of rhetoric, aiming at what is verisimilar, is above all useful in the public realm, that is in political and forensic speeches.

2025, Why Camus Matters

Draft of chapter for Why Camus Matters (Bloomsbury) [author's preprint]. Wasn't going to circulate but developments in the US are so rapid that it seems like this material is worth people accessing. I situate Camus in relation to two predominant philosophical readings of fascism: the neoliberal-postmodern (fascism as hypertrophe of administrative reason) and the Marxist reading (fascism as irrationalism ascendant in conditions of capitalist crisis). I argue that Camus' chapter in The Rebel positions fascism as 'irrational terror,' and clearly differentiates fascism from Stalinism in ways the neoliberal-postmodern readings obscure--in ways that have enabled the far right and other forms of irrationalism to present itself as "pro-freedom" until 2025. I then look at his reading of the psychology of fascism, seeing it as cynicism resulting from despair in conditions of sociopolitical crisis, as dramatised by Camus' darkest character, Jean-Baptiste Clamence in La Chute.

2025

Die 2010 an der Universität Zürich eingereichte Dissertation greift eine Feststellung der Parzival-Forschung auf, die bisher immer ohne genauere Überprüfung hingenommen wurde, da sie auf den ersten Blick überzeugt: Alles hängt in dem Roman mit allem zusammen, weshalb sich zahlreiche Anknüpfungspunkte und Parallelisierungen feststellen lassen. Man kann daher von einem Roman der Wiederholungen sprechen. Trotz oder vielleicht gerade wegen der Offensichtlichkeit dieser Feststellung wurde bisher allerdings noch nie versucht, die Parallelisierungen und Wiederholungen des Parzival zu systematisieren -bis zu dieser Monographie von Julia Richter: Und obwohl eben dieses Charakteristikum zentral für den poetischen Entwurf des Parzival ist und seine Erzählweise dominiert, steht der Versuch, die Verknüpfungstechnik des Wolframschen Romans systematisch zu untersuchen und auf ihren poetischen Mehrwert im Blick auf Literarizität des Textes hin zu befragen, bislang immer noch aus. Das soll nun im Rahmen der vorliegenden Arbeit unter Hinzuziehung des theoretischen Ansatzes zum paradigmatischen Erzählen nachgeholt werden. (S. 3)

2025, Yale journal of law and the humanities

My goal in this essay is to introduce legal academics to a body of theory on sex equality generated throughout Western Europe from at least the fourteenth century until the French Revolution. The authors in this tradition were mostly what we today might call "sameness" feminists; that is to say, they took the position that all differences between the sexes apart from those directly connected to reproductive physiology were the product of education and custom, not of nature. If women were given the education and opportunities available to men, these writers contended, they would achieve as men have. Scholars in the humanities, to whom this tradition is generally known under the rubric "querelle des femmes," have become increasingly familiar with its major works and authors.' Those who search for the first feminist, for example, are increasingly likely to name not eighteenth-century authors like Mary Wollstonecraft, but Christine de Pizan, whose * Countless people over many years have made invaluable contributions to my work on early feminist theory. Since I cannot thank them all here, I shall, like the master of the vineyard (Matthew 20:1-16) and with apologies to those whose help came early, give what may seem like a disproportionate share of thanks to those who provided help late in the day. Thus, I am most grateful to

2025, Yale journal of law and the humanities

2024

In this paper, we describe work in progress for the development of a named entity recognizer for Greek. The system aims at information extraction applications where large scale text processing is needed. Speed of analysis, system robustness, and results accuracy have been the basic guidelines for the system"s design. Our system is an automated pipeline of linguistic components for Greek text processing based on pattern matching techniques. Nonrecursive regular expressions have been implemented on top of it in order to capture different types of named entities. Α corpus of financial texts has been collected from several web sources and has been manually annotated in order to be used for development and testing purposes. Overall precision and recall are 86% and 81% respectively.

2024, Texte: revue critique et de théorie littéraire

de l'Âge classique jusqu'au milieu du XX e siècle, est celle d'une interminable décadence, d'une longue survie scolaire sclérosée au milieu d'une déconsidération générale 1 . Au début du XIX e siècle, l'évêque écossais Richard Whately publie ses Elements of Rhetoric 2 , le grand manuel vingt fois réédité en Angleterre, en avouant au début de son livre qu'il a hésité à employer ce mot de rhétorique dans son titre, mot "apt to suggest to many minds an associated idea of empty declamation or of dishonest artifice" 3 . Ni le romantisme, au nom de la Sincérité, ni l'esprit scientifique, au nom de la Positivité, ne consentaient plus à faire place à la rhétorique qui ne survivait falotement que comme un enseignement poussiéreux, héritage de l'éducation libérale des Grecs et des Romains. Enseignement surtout clérical du reste : les esprits modernes et laïcs, attachés au raisonnement scientifique, s'étaient détournés de ces techniques « oratoires » floues, fallacieuses et verbeuses. En 1902, le nom même de « rhétorique » fut effacé en France pour désigner la première des lycées. 1 Marc Angenot a été invité en octobre 2008 à prononcer à l'Université Libre de Bruxelles la conférence d'ouverture du colloque « L'argumentation au coeur du droit », journées organisées par le Centre Perelman de philosophie du droit en vue de commémorer le cinquantième anniversaire de la publication du Traité de l'argumentation, la Nouvelle rhétorique de Chaïm Perelman et Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca ( Paris, P.U.F., 1958). Il en a tiré le présent exposé où il rend hommage à son maître tout en exposant sa propre conception de la rhétorique et de la place qui lui revient dans les sciences humaines et en formulant de « nouvelles propositions pour l'étude de l'argumentation ». 2 R. WHATELY, Elements of Rhetoric (London, Murray, 1828). 3 Ibid., p. iii. Quelque chose demeure de cette défaveur qui ne manque certes pas de « bonnes raisons », des raisons avec lesquelles nous, sociocriticiens, analystes du discours, historiens des idées, devons consentir à vivre. De nos jours, « rhétorique », dans le discours ordinaire, demeure parfaitement péjoratif, proche de verbosité, propagande, démagogie, manipulation. Les journaux en attestent qui utilisent toujours « rhétorique » péjorativement. Ceci se constate spécialement en anglais. Je lis dans le New York Times : "President Bush's speech was long on rhetoric and short on substance." 4 . "Rhetoric" dans la presse américaine ne veut jamais dire que blabla, déclamation, tromperie, mensonge. Le discrédit moderne apparaîtrait total si l'on ne voyait pourtant que la réflexion sur l'argumentation publique et sur le discours persuasif ne disparaît pas vraiment, mais que les quelques grands livres qui en parlent, au 19 e siècle, ne sont pas le fait de rhéteurs et d'auteurs de manuels, mais d'hommes politiques comme Jeremy Bentham, dont le Book of Fallacies, 1824, est un écrit pénétrant, amusant et d'un intérêt toujours actuel 5 . Ou d'un philosophe et économiste comme John Stuart Mill dont le System of Logic de 1843 ne demeure pas moins d'une réelle pertinence 6 . La philosophie moderne, assure-t-on, s'était détournée de la rhétorique. Ceci aussi serait vrai si la rhétorique n'était pas conçue comme l'essence même de la philosophie par Nietzsche. Nietzsche qui commence son cours de rhétorique enseigné à Bâle par le banal constat que « dans les temps modernes, cet art est l'objet d'un mépris général », va mettre néanmoins la rhétorique au coeur de sa réflexion philosophique. Sa Darstellung der antiken Rhetorik, anticipant sur notre époque, formule en une proposition-clé le renversement fécond de la réflexion sur le langage : « Il n'y a absolument pas de naturalité non-rhétorique du langage. » 7 . 4 Cité par Wayne C.

2024

Утверждено к печати Ученым советом Института мировой литературы им. А.М. Горького Российской академии наук Ответственный редактор М.Л. Андреев, академик РАН, доктор филологических наук, главный научный сотрудник, Институт мировой литературы им. А.М. Горького Российской академии наук Рецензенты С.Ю. Павлова, доктор филологических наук, профессор, Саратовский национальный исследовательский университет им. Н.Г. Чернышевского И.О. Шайтанов, доктор филологических наук, профессор, директор Учебно-научного центра современных компаративных исследований, Российский государственный гуманитарный университет Е 24 Европейский классицизм. Энциклопедический путеводитель / отв. ред.

2024, Current progress in arts and social studies research, vol. 4

This study seeks to connect Chaim Perelman’s new rhetoric with critical theory, specifically Jürgen Habermas’ ideal speech situation, to develop a more nuanced understanding of how argumentative strategies interact with power and ideology. Juxtaposing critical analysis of Perelman’s writings with Habermas’ ideal speech situation reveals that the universal audience, although conceived as a normative ideal for rational argumentation, is itself embedded in ideological contexts. The universal audience can function as a mechanism for legitimizing institutionalized power relationships and entitling individuals to exert authority. It also, however, possesses potential as a counter-ideological tool when synthesized with the ideal speech situation. This synthesis offers a more robust, although still nascent, framework for understanding the interplay between argumentation, ideology, and power.

2024, Revista Española de Retórica

This article analyzes the parallels between the praefatio of the Compendiosa coaptatio rhetorica (1515) by Antonio de Nebrija and the prologue of the Ars dicedi (1556) by Francisco Sánchez de las Brozas (El Brocense). Both works were born in a academic context to serve as textbooks in university classrooms. Nebrija composed his work at the request of Cardinal Cisneros, while El Brocense wrote his rhetoric after being hired as «Regente» at the recently inaugurated Trilingue College of Salamanca. Nebrija accepted Cisneros’s commission even though he considered it a difficult and unnecessary task due to the existence of a rich previous tradition. The Brocense, on the other hand, takes this tradition as the starting point to develop a project whose novelty lies in
the different organization of the doctrines. The attitude when composing a rhetoric manual, the assessment made of the sources used and the different opinion regarding the survival of the genus judiciale allow us to affirm that El Brocense was thinking about Nebrija’s work when he composed the prologue of his Ars dicendi.

2024, Semiotica, 259

Le concept d’ethos, que l’étymologie rattache à l’éthique, aux mœurs et à la morale, est ici examiné à l’intersection des études sémiotiques et des sciences sociales. Une méthode est développée pour l'étude des caractères, ou ethe, qui... more

2024, Blaise Cendrars Poesía 1912-1919

Éste es el prólogo de la edición bilingüe de Blaise Cendrars “Poesía 1912-1919”, UNAM, 1995. “Escribir es quemarse vivo, pero es también volver a nacer de esas cenizas”, escribió Frédéric-Louis Sauser, quien forjó su seudónimo de Blaise Cendrars a partir de la creencia en la resurrección del escritor, como el Fénix, de sus cenizas. Esta edición reúne por primera vez en español los principales poemas de Cendrars, en particular cuatro obras maestras (“Semana Santa en Nueva York”, “Prosa del transiberiano”, “El Panamá” y “19 poemas elásticos”). A pesar de su brevedad al lado de las cuatro mil páginas que constituyen su obra completa esos títulos bastarían para considerarlo no sólo como el primer poeta moderno, antes de Apollinaire, sino como uno de los principales poetas del siglo XX en lengua francesa. Paralelamente a la poesía, Cendrars practicó todos los géneros, desde la autobiografía ⸺corregida por la imaginación desenfrenada del mitómano⸺, la novela de aventuras (“Moravagine”), la de anticipación (“El fin del mundo”), el relato erótico (“Emmène-moi au bout du monde”), el documental (“El oro”), hasta la crítica ⸺literaria, de cine, de pintura⸺, a lo largo de una obra abigarrada como un collage cubista, logró “juntar los elementos de una violenta Belleza”, la del mundo moderno.

2024, Ortaçağ Araştırmaları Dergisi

Öz-Christine de Pizan (1363/1364?-1430), sadece Orta Çağ edebiyatında değil aynı zamanda kadınların yazım geleneğinde önemli bir iz bırakan, ilk profesyonel kadın yazar olarak bilinir. Kişisel ve kolektif kadın deneyimine dayanarak, Orta Çağ döneminin ataerkil toplumunda kadınların yaşamının farklı yönlerini ele aldığı yüzlerce edebi eserin yazarı olmuştur. Eserleri, kadınları sınırlayan ve onları alçaltıcı durumlara hapseden ve kadın düşmanlığı sergileyen yapılara karşı mücadele ortaya koyar. Bu çalışma, pagan zamanlardan Hıristiyan tarihine farklı kadın hikayeleri ve başarılarını içeren de Pizan'ın önemli eserlerinden biri olan The Book of the City of Ladies (1404-1405) adlı çalışmasını irdelemeyi amaçlar. Bu Orta Çağ anlatı eserinde de, de Pizan alegorik karakterleri, kadın düşmanlığı söylemi ve uygulamaları hakkında bir tartışma başlatmak için stratejik biçimde kullanır. Eser kadınların deneyiminin panoramasını açığa çıkarırken, ataerkil güce ve hakimiyete meydan okuyan bir anlatı sunar. Bu çalışma de Pizan'ın kadın deneyimine dayanan anlatısında kadınların varlığını nasıl güçlendirdiğini ve sonraki kuşak kadın yazarlardan önce feminist yazımda öncü olduğunu gösterir.

2024

'll just quickly mention here at the beginning that my casual play on Yeats's famous line "that is no country for old men" is less arbitrary than it would at first appear. Not only does the poem "Sailing to Byzantium" involve a kind of pilgrimage that we might compare to the journey of many poor and middling classes to Pennsylvania in the eighteenth century, but Yeats's status as an Irish poet-and poet of Irish liberation-is appropriate to the background of early capitalism and settler colonialism in Pennsylvania, as we'll see. So on that note, I'll

2024, Springer eBooks

Women's Food Matters "This groundbreaking interdisciplinary feminist study offers a new perspective on how, and why, women's food matters throughout history and in our contemporary world. As one of the first studies to combine a focus on food production, processing and cooking, on food cultures and food systems, Swinbank puts women's knowledge and creativity at center stage in the reproduction and transformation of culture and agriculture. Women's Food Matters provides a theoretically rich contribution that is jargon-free, making it an appropriate choice for classes at any level, as well as for the general reader. Destined to 'stir the pot' of contemporary food studies.

2024

Séance du laboratoire junior Himation, le vendredi 2 décembre 2022. Nous continuons notre exploration de l'emploi métaphorique du vêtement en nous intéressant aux emplois rhétoriques, avec Mélanie Lucciano et Charles Guérin.

2024, arcadia

This article traces the emergence and evolution of 'rhetoric' as a historical key term of metaliterary discourse. In the modernist period, the term 'rhetoric' was given a conspicuously central role in the heated debate over literary style and its relation to ordinary language, not incidentally after rhetoric's fall from grace as an academic discipline over the course of the 19 th century. Scores of writers (e. g. Symons, Yeats, Hofmannsthal, Gourmont, Pound, Eliot) attacked 'rhetoric,' variously (and often vaguely) defined as convoluted poetic diction, moralistic or political preaching, and meaningless abstraction. Yet, the broader cultural context in which this anti-rhetorical discourse was situated reveals a climate of widespread suspicion of language as a sign system, with the term 'rhetoric' functioning as a receptacle for feelings of dissatisfaction with language. In contrast, Jean Paulhan's sophisticated reappropriation of 'rhetoric' in Les fleurs de Tarbes (The Flowers of Tarbes) and other writings reasserted confidence in language and its commonplace expressions, and in the "arts of writing." Paulhan's proposed solution helps us to shed light on a demonstrable tendency in modernist poetics to incorporate rather than simply expel rhetorica search for a properly modernist rhetoric.

2024, Rencontres

La disposition du grognon Type de publication : Article de collectif Collectif : Éric Chevillard dans tous ses états Auteur : Bloch (Béatrice) Résumé : Dans cette subtile fable qu'est L'Auteur et moi, l'auteur interrompt son personnage pour lui voler la vedette et narrer sa propre histoire. Cet article inventorie les humours en jeu : décalage scalaire inversant les valeurs d'importance, théorie de l'esprit infantile du pince-sans-rire mimant la naïveté, nonsense logique et parodies des genres littéraires, tout est là pour expliquer le plaisir du lecteur et d'un auteur qui refuse l'efficience d'une société post-toyotiste.

2024, Human Relations

The historic turn in organization studies has led to greater appreciation of the potential contribution from historical research. However, there is increasing emphasis on integrating history into organization studies, rather than on recognizing how accommodating history might require a reorientation. As a result, key conceptual and methodological insights from historiography have been overlooked or at times misrepresented. We identify four modes of enquiry that highlight distinctions from history about ‘how to conceptualize’ and ‘how to research’ the past. First, historical organization studies research the past primarily through reference to archival sources. Second, retrospective organizational history reconstructs the past principally from retrospective accounts, such as those generated in oral history. Third, retrospective organizational memory uses ethnography and interviews to explore the role of memory in the present. Fourth, historical organizational memory traces the instit...

2024

This short essay introduces the special issue, "Radical Rhetorics at/ and the World's End," which features original short essays that offer bold, risky, and provocative perspectives that share the general belief that we can no longer afford safe, incremental, or mechanical solutions and responses to the profound challenges that confront our planetary community/ies today. Rather than a new set of universals, or proscriptive, prescriptive, or diagnostic solutions, the essays included herein open an in/coherent political horizon and gesture to a diverse set of tools, concepts, and approaches that might help rethink what meaningful social change, world-building, and the pluriversal present and future might look like in all of its diversity, unpredictability, and in/ coherence. This forum emerged from a roundtable discussion at the 2022 National Communication Association convention and was developed through a collaborative peer review process that involved all contributing authors. This introduction establishes the disciplinary, conceptual, and personal context surrounding this forum before providing a brief overview of the essays.

2024, The Review of Politics

Recent scholarship has yielded a great deal of information on Cicero's De officiis; this essay, however, seeks to move beyond information about the work in favor of an interpretation of Cicero's intention in writing it. To this end, the essay analyzes the genre and intended audience of De officiis, the allegedly Stoic teaching contained in it, and the puzzle presented by its crucial third book. The understanding of Cicero's intention that emerges from these investigations is then briefly compared with Cicero's teaching in De finibus. The essay ultimately claims that De officiis should be interpreted as advocating a sort of Stoicism for the unphilosophical even while urging the views of the Peripatetics on the more sophisticated. 3. M. Winterbottom, De offlciis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994). All Latin quotations from De officiis will be taken from this edition.

2024, Literatura dvuh Amerik

Most scholars of American theorist Kenneth Burke consider him a founder of the postwar New Rhetoric, a movement to shift rhetorical studies from a historic focus on persuasion to a more expansive understanding of language, dialogue, and communally constructed truths. However, Burke throughout the 1930s and 40s thought of himself primarily as a literary critic, albeit one who turned literary critical techniques to the social scene around him. Without his ongoing, often contentious dialogue with the literary scholars of the New Criticism, Burke's rhetorical theories on the power of language to answer questions of human motivations may well have never materialized. New Criticism and New Rhetoric, therefore, forged each other in the crucible of the mid-century years of depression and war and the intellectual ferment they generated. It was Burke's attempts to explain himself to these literary critics and exhort them to turn their critical lens to the world around them that provided the methodology for his action-analysis of the socio-political world. In this article I examine three of these contentious relationships-with Allen Tate prior to World War II, with John Crowe Ransom during the war, and with René Wellek following it. Their debates and congruences led Burke to formulate his purposely ambiguous understanding of hierarchies and norms that constitute what he termed the "wrangle" of parliamentary debatea constitutive rhetoric that continues to drive international relations today.

2024, The Prague School and Theories of Structure

in volume six of his compendium of modern literary criticism, wrote the following about Kenneth Burke, who was at the time nearing the very end of his 60-year career as a literary critic, semanticist, and theorist. Placing him among the New Critics, Wellek questioned his allegiance: »In [Burke's] theory, literature becomes absorbed into a scheme of linguistic action or rhetoric so all-embracing and all-absorbing that poetry as an art is lost sight of [.. .]. Art perishes and one wonders what the grand drama is for« (1986, 255-56). Today, rhetoricians agree that Burke's true allegiance was not to the New Criticism but instead to the New Rhetoric, the revival and expansion of rhetorical theory that has taken place in the U.S. from the mid-20 th century and now numbers over 1,000 academic rhetoricians. While we often trace the beginnings of the New Rhetoric to the English critic I.A. Richards' 1936 Bryn Mawr Lectures on The Philosophy of Rhetoric, and while other canonical »New Rhetoricians« would include such figures as Chicago narratologist Wayne Booth and Polish-Belgian argument theorist Chaim Perelman, it is arguably Kenneth Burke who is today the best known, most influential, and most widely studied. His expansive theories on discourse analysis, collected in books spanning four decades but most elucidated in 1945's A Grammar of Motives, 1950's A Rhetoric of Motives, and 1966's Language as Symbolic Action, are standard fare in American graduate schools. Burke's philosophy of language as symbolic action in particular has become almost ubiquitous in the humanities and social sciences (Gusfield 1989, 2), and his influence on literary studies, rhetoric, and speech communications is even more pronounced. Postcolonial theorist Edward Said lamented in 1983 that »any reader of modern French criticism will be astounded to realize that Kenneth Burke, in whose huge output many of the issues and methods currently engaging the French were first discussed, is unknown,« but Burke is no longer unknown, and the ranks of Burke scholars continue to grow through the conferences and journals dedicated to his theories. While Burke wrote literary and social criticism throughout the 1930 s, it is his theory of dramatism, promulgated in his 1945 book A Grammar of Motives, that Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0

2024

Most scholars of American theorist Kenneth Burke consider him a founder of the post-war New Rhetoric, a movement to shift rhetorical studies from a historic focus on persuasion to a more expansive understanding of language, dialogue, and communally constructed truths. However, Burke throughout the 1930s and 40s thought of himself primarily as a literary critic, albeit one who turned literary critical techniques to the social scene around him. Without his ongoing, often contentious dialogue with the literary scholars of the New Criticism, Burke’s rhetorical theories on the power of language to answer questions of human motivations may well have never materialized. New Criticism and New Rhetoric, therefore, forged each other in the crucible of the mid-century years of depression and war and the intellectual ferment they generated. It was Burke’s attempts to explain himself to these literary critics and exhort them to turn their critical lens to the world around them that provided the ...

2024, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

2024, Political Theory

While my differences with Christian Delacampagne are likely overshadowed by our more fundamental agreement on the continuing significance of the Enlightenment and our shared reservations about some of the criticism it has received, it may nevertheless be useful to clarify our disagreements and to correct a few misunderstandings. My article argued that much of what passes today as a critique of "the Enlightenment Project" rests on two questionable moves. The first projects onto the eighteenth century a set of ideals and aspirations that the critic sees as responsible for current maladies. The second, typically cast in the form of what Albert O. Hirschman has termed the "perversity thesis," 1 argues that these ideals and aspirations, while laudable in theory, yield results diametrically opposite from those intended. I argued that the first move results in bad history: the project under attack is largely the creature of the critic. I suggested that the second move yields rather implausible explanations for subsequent events: thus James Q. Wilson sees the distribution of condoms to fourth-graders as part of the "legacy of the Enlightenment" while Berel Lang argues that Kant's moral philosophy has an "affiliation" with Nazi genocide. Delacampagne shares some of my misgivings about the first of these moves, recognizing that "the Enlightenment" encompassed a remarkable diversity of positions and that its critics tend to oversimplify matters. But, after acknowledging that there is "not a single philosophical or political position" shared by "all of the main representatives of the Enlightenment," he manages to find one after all: "the antireligious position." Vacillations of this sort are not unusual in the literature I surveyed: a recognition that the Enlightenment is not a "monolithic block" is regularly followed by arguments that proceed as if it were. Rarely has the maxim "Quit while you are ahead" seemed so appropriate.

2024, Le <i>Brutus</i> de Cicéron

Pour reprendre les mots de C. Lévy, «si par 'histoire' on entend 'évolution' , il y a une certaine contradiction à dire qu'il existe chez Cicéron une histoire de la rhétorique stoïcienne. En effet, la particularité de cette rhétorique, du moins dans la représentation cicéronienne, est d'offrir des caractéristiques si rigides qu'elles semblent ne laisser pour ainsi dire aucune place à l' initiative individuelle»1. Dans la mesure où l'orateur du Portique ne conçoit aucune différence de fond entre rhétorique et dialectique-ce que Zénon avait symbolisé par la célèbre métaphore du poing ouvert et de la main fermée-, ces deux disciplines peuvent toutes deux être requises dans le même discours, sans à-coups dans le passage de l'une à l'autre, pour exposer des thèses philosophiques, s'adresser au sénat, plaider au tribunal ou au forum, par le biais tantôt de petits syllogismes acérés, tantôt de développements oratoires plus longs. Ce fut précisément la coexistence des deux styles au sein d' un même discours, d'une même argumentation, qui conduisit Cicéron à discréditer la rhétorique des Stoïciens au point de ne plus reconnaître à ces philosophes qu' un seul mode d'expression, le mode dialectique2, dont il conteste la validité tant sous l'angle de la pratique philosophique (jugée inefficace) que d' un point de vue oratoire. Dans ce dernier domaine, l'échec de la rhétorique du Portique fut à ses yeux particulièrement flagrant, si l'on en croit un extrait du Brutus3 au cours duquel l'auteur, neuf ans après avoir dressé dans le De oratore4 un portrait accablant et circonstancié de l'éloquence stoïcienne dont il déplore une homogénéité en réalité problématique5, fustige la rigidité des orateurs du Portique, leur monolithisme, leur incapacité à moduler leur discours en fonction

2024

ED364908 - Insights from Past Inventional Theory for Present Critical Thinking and Writing.

2024, Human Relations

The historic turn in organization studies has led to greater appreciation of the potential contribution from historical research. However, there is increasing emphasis on integrating history into organization studies, rather than on recognizing how accommodating history might require a reorientation. As a result, key conceptual and methodological insights from historiography have been overlooked or at times misrepresented. We identify four modes of enquiry that highlight distinctions from history about 'how to conceptualize' and 'how to research' the past. First, historical organization studies research the past primarily through reference to archival sources. Second, retrospective organizational history reconstructs the past principally from retrospective accounts, such as those generated in oral history. Third, retrospective organizational memory uses ethnography and interviews to explore the role of memory in the present. Fourth, historical organizational memory traces the institutionalization of organizational memory through

2024, Talia Dixit

En la década de 1640 se publican en Europa, especialmente en Alemania, numerosos textos y obras teatrales que reflejan el anhelo de paz que sienten los europeos ante la destrucción ocasionada por la Guerra de los Treinta Años. En este contexto, Elias Maior, rector del Elisabet-Gymnasium de Breslavia, organiza una representación pública el 25 de agosto de 1644 para que también resuene este grito por la paz en sus aulas. Para ello, decide realizar una adaptación de los siete primeros progymnasmata a la defensa de la paz y, como es habitual en esta época, publica un opúsculo en el que recoge a) la organización del acto, b) las fuentes que utilizarán los participantes y c) la relación de estos con la asignación de las tareas de las que deben hacerse cargo. En este trabajo se ofrece la edición del texto con un breve estudio, en el que se contextualiza la obra y se establece su estructura y las fuentes clásicas y humanísticas utilizadas.

2024, Res Rhetorica

This paper demonstrates the connections between certain cultural traits of Scandinavia, a scholarly interest in rhetorical practice and the workings of rhetoric, and a recent interest in audience-oriented research methods. Scandinavia is characterised by a tradition of practical rhetoric, egalitarianism, high trust, and low scores on power distance and masculinity in Hofstede’s culture comparison tool. This, I suggest, is reflected in an interest in the everyday pragmatic functions and workings of rhetoric, paving the way for the use of audience research.

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Classical Greece is one of the periods in time in which rhetoric constituted one of the keys in the public, democratic life that characterized the Greek polis. Diversified into three genres-legal, deliberative, and epideictic-it covered all aspects of the public existence of Greek citizens. This was the most brilliant period for this discipline, as it was used as a tool of persuasion in discussing political problems in public squares and courts. But with the passage of time rhetoric fell into disuse and was considered a negative, superfluous feature that only manipulated the souls of those who cared to listed as opposed to something that contributed to public discussion. The purpose of this article is to briefly define the causes of the splendor and fall of rhetoric as the art of persuasion with words. We will defend the position that we currently need to recover some of the aspects of rhetoric that are shown to be valid for democratic exchange via the mass media. Rhetoric is consolidated in the framework of the Greek polis, and more specifically in Athens. The Sophists appeared in this atmosphere of freedom. In Barelli's (1989) opinion, their appearance marks the first major event in the history of rhetoric since they created an epistemological, timeless, and ethical model that covered significant gaps in Greek civilization, such as the organization of the main educational organizations and the development of a critical spirit (Robrieux, 1993). Although the Sophists contributed much to the advancement of rhetoric as a science, it is also true

2024, Social Science Research Network

Chaïm Perelman resuscitated the rhetorical tradition by developing an elegant and detailed theory of argumentation. Rejecting the single-minded Cartesian focus on rational truth, Perelman recovered the ancient wisdom that we can argue reasonably about matters that admit only of probability. From this one would conclude that Perelman's argumentation theory is inalterably opposed to natural law, and therefore that I would have done better to have written an article titled "Perelman's Th eory of Argumentation as a Rejection of Natural Law." However, my thesis is precisely that Perelman's theory of argumentation connects to the natural law tradition in interesting and productive ways. Perelman referred to natural law in a number of his essays as an example of the excessively rational focus that he sought to correct with his theory of argumentation, but he also noted the power of natural law claims in legal argumentation. To my knowledge, he never off ered a detailed account of the connections between his theory of argumentation and natural law. However, Perelman's deep and abiding concern with justice suggests that he could not help but be interested in lines of argumentation that challenge positive laws from some other standpointthat, in some manner, he must embrace some elements of the natural law tradition.

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2024, Argumentation and advocacy

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La rhétorique est-elle une technique de manipulation ? Réflexions sur une accusation et ses limites Type de publication : Article de collectif Collectif : Les Expressions de la manipulation du Moyen Âge à nos jours Auteur : Nicolas (Loïc) Résumé : Le but de cet article est de questionner le discrédit séculaire attaché à la rhétorique et d'analyser la terreur que ses techniques et méthodes ne cessent d'inspirer. Nous tâcherons de mieux comprendre le rapprochement opéréd'ordinaire entre pratique de la rhétorique et manipulation des esprits. Il s'agira alors de présenter de l'ancien « art de persuader » un autre visage, et de signaler sa valeur profonde autant que son efficacité dans la gestion des affaires humaines, notamment en démocratie.

2024, Exercices de rhétorique

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2024, Rhetoric Society Quarterly

This essay examines the lives of two pianists with significant impairments of their right arms: Paul Wittgenstein, a classical pianist who lost his right arm in World War I, and Horace Parlan, a jazz pianist who lost full use of his right hand due to childhood polio. Drawing on theories of mêtis and passing developed by queer theory and disability studies scholars, we theorize aural passing to examine how Parlan and Wittgenstein differently navigated the rhetorical constraints of their respective musical genres. Engaging a rhetorical biography of each performer's unique mêtis, we compare how disabled forms of passing are not equivalent across all instances and conclude by meditating on the entrenched ableism of musical pedagogy and performance.

2024, Ethics and Danger

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2024, Classica Vox

This article investigates the antinomy between schola and forum in Seneca the Elder’s declamatory collection, by comparing the portraits of the declaimer Porcius Latro, in the preface of book I, and the orator Votienus Montanus, in the preface of book IX. The very positive description of the first and the profound ambiguity in the presentation of the latter can be read as an original articulation of the traditional opposition between rhetorical teaching and oratorical practice.

2024, Literacy in Composition Studies

2024, Comparative Drama, Volume 57, Number 3, Winter 2023, pp. 299-303 (Article)

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With the recent interest in the fifth century B.C. theories of Protagoras and Gorgias come assumptions about the philosophical affinity of the Greek educator Isocrates to this pair of older sophists. Isocratean education in discourse, with its emphasis on collaborative political discourse, falls within recent definitions of a sophist curriculum. That is, skills learned in the sophistic classroom are applied directly to the "polis." Examination of Isocrates' writings shows that, for Isocrates, the most useful discourse is that which has a social end. Overall, Isocrates's educational theory favors social interaction through language, as well as probable rather than absolute knowledge. One elemont missing from contemporary composition instruction is just such an emphasis on public discourse. Furthermore, neo-sophistic pedagogical strategies can be based on Isocratean as well as Protagorean theory. These strategies allow students to voice their views publicly about localized student and community issues. Such assignments will involve not only written forums but also oral and electronic forums that are collaborative and epistemic in nature. Finally, the notion that the fostering of citizenship is an achievable goal in composition classes should not be overlooked, especially as instructors aid students in realizing that they can become part of ongoing public dialogues.

2023, Journal of Moravian history

2023, Advances in the History of Rhetoric