Essays on Aristotle's Rhetoric

Essays on Aristotle'sRhetoric offers a fresh and comprehensive assessment of a classic work. Aristotle's influence on the practice and theory of rhetoric, as it affects political and legal argumentation, has been continuous and far-reaching. This anthology presents Aristotle'sRhetoricin its original context, providing examples of the kind of oratory whose success Aristotle explains and analyzes. The contributors--eminent philosophers, classicists, and critics--assess the role and the techniques of rhetorical persuasion in philosophic discourse and in the public sphere. They connect Aristotle'sRhetoricto his other work on ethics and politics, as well as to his ideas on logic, psychology, and philosophy of language. The collection as a whole invites us to reassess the place of rhetoric in intellectual and political life.Rorty, Amélie Oksenberg is the author of 'Essays on Aristotle's Rhetoric' with ISBN 9780520202283 and ISBN 0520202287.