Classical Greek rhetorical theory and the disciplining of discourse
David M. Timmerman (Author), Edward Schiappa (Author)
David Timmerman and Edward Schiappa demonstrate that the intellectual and political history of Greek rhetorical theory can be enhanced by a better understanding of the emergence of 'terms of art' in texts about persuasive speaking and argumentation.
Print Book, English, 2013
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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2013
ix, 192 pages ; 24 cm
9781107696921, 1107696925
1038188057
1. Introduction: terms of art as a focus in the history of rhetorical theory; 2. Dialegesthai as a term of art: Plato and the disciplining of dialectic; 3. Philosophia as a term of art: recovering Isocrates; 4. Terms of art for political deliberation: demegoria and sumboule; 5. Terms of art and the interpretation of texts: the disciplinary status of the Rhetoric to Alexander; 6. Terms of art and inferring rhetorical theory: when did the parts of a speech become formalized?; 7. Epilogue.