Plato on Rhetoric and Language

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Reducere. DescriptionThis book is about what ten renowned philosophers and/or linguists as well as the author think about language and how we have to investi...

Reducere. In Ambient Rhetoric, Thomas Rickert seeks to dissolve the boundaries of the rhetorical tradition and its basic dichotomy of subject and object. Wit...

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This edited collection combines quantitative content and critical discourse analysis to reveal a shift in the rhetoric used as part of the neoliber...

Reducere. DescriptionThis new edition of George A. Kennedy's highly acclaimed translation and commentary offers the most faithful English version ever publis...

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With the emergence of democracy in the city-state of Athens in the years around 460 BC, public speaking became an essential skill for politicians i...

Reducere. A fter a lifetime of writing and editing prose, Jacques Barzun has set down his view of the best ways to improve one's style. His discussions of di...

Contributor(s): Author: Renee H. SheaAuthor: Lawrence ScanlonAuthor: Robin Dissin AufsesFor over a decade, The Language of Composition has been the...

Aristotle (384-322 BC), the great Greek thinker, researcher, and educator, ranks among the most important and influential figures in the history of...

This book offers a new unified approach to rhetoric, a means of persuading or influencing interlocutors. All the principal authors from Plato and A...

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Marsilio Ficino, the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. His commentaries remained ...

Reducere. Masters of language can turn unassuming words into phrases that are convincing, effective, and memorably beautiful. Lincoln and Churchill had this ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Laurent PernotTranslator: W. E. HigginsOriginally published as La Rhetorique dans l'Antiquite (2000), this new English edit...

Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Hans-Georg (University of Heidelberg) GadamerTranslator: P. Christopher SmithNumber of pages: 240Publica...

Reducere. Introducing Arabic Rhetoric is a book that aims to introduce students to the unique discipline of rhetorical studies as understood and formulated b...

Publisher: University of Wisconsin PressAuthor(s): Edwin BlackNumber of pages: 198Publication date: 1978Dimensions: 141 x 216 x 21Cover type: Paper...

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The "Notes of Dr. Smith's Rhetorick Lectures, " discovered in 1958 by a University of Aberdeen professor, consists of lecture notes taken by two of...

Reducere. This answer key contains the answers to the review questions asked in The Rhetoric Companion: A Student's Guide to Power in Persuasion text. It's a...

Reducere. For the Christian student of rhetoric, manipulative sophistry is clearly out of bounds. But putting careful thought into what constitutes eloquent ...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: PlatoTranslator: James H. NicholsWith a masterful sense of the place of rhetoric in both thought and practice and an ear at...

Widely used in advanced composition and writing courses, Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student discusses the three vital components of classica...

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Plato Six Pack represents the full-range of Plato's philosophy. Included are six of his original works - Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, The All...

Reducere. This volume contains new translations of two dialogues of Plato, the Protagoras and the Meno, together with explanatory notes and substantial inter...

Ostensibly a discussion about love, the debate in the Phaedrus also encompasses the art of rhetoric and how it should be practised. This new editio...

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Reducere. The trial of Socrates refers to the trial and the subsequent execution of the Athenian philosopher Socrates in 399 BC. Socrates was tried and convi...

"Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato."--Emerson The Republic and other great dialogues by the immortal Greek philosopher Plato are masterpie...

DescriptionThis volume contains three rhetorical treatises dating probably from the reign of Diocletian (AD 285-312) that provide instruction on ho...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): PlatoIllustration(s): noneTranslator: M. J. LevettNumber of pages: 368Collection: Hackett ClassicsP...

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Reducere. DescriptionThe law has traditionally been regarded as a set of rules and institutions. In this thoughtful series of essays, James Boyd White urges ...

Described by the New York Times as arguably the most important intellectual alive, Noam Chomsky is known throughout the world for his highly influe...

The true story of a US platoon's brutal struggle against a Taliban attack in 2009, told by the man who fought to defend his men, Staff Sergeant Cli...

This book offers a bold reading of Protestant tradition from a rhetorical and literary perspective. Arguing that Protestant thought is based in a r...