Edmund Burke And The Art Of Rhetoric

Author : Paddy Bullard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139495691

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Edmund Burke and the Art of Rhetoric by Paddy Bullard Pdf

Edmund Burke ranks among the most accomplished orators ever to debate in the British Parliament. But often his eloquence has been seen to compromise his achievements as a political thinker. In the first full-length account of Burke's rhetoric, Bullard argues that Burke's ideas about civil society, and particularly about the process of political deliberation, are, for better or worse, shaped by the expressiveness of his language. Above all, Burke's eloquence is designed to express ethos or character. This rhetorical imperative is itself informed by Burke's argument that the competency of every political system can be judged by the ethical knowledge that the governors have of both the people that they govern and of themselves. Bullard finds the intellectual roots of Burke's 'rhetoric of character' in early modern moral and aesthetic philosophy, and traces its development through Burke's parliamentary career to its culmination in his masterpiece, Reflections on the Revolution in France.

Author : Stephen H. Browne
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0817306765

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Edmund Burke and the Discourse of Virtue by Stephen H. Browne Pdf

Close readings of Burke's public discourse and political writings

Author : James Jasinski
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001-07-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0761905049

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Sourcebook on Rhetoric by James Jasinski Pdf

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Author : Yasmin Solomonescu,Stefan H. Uhlig
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192678669

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Persuasion after Rhetoric in the Eighteenth Century and Romanticism by Yasmin Solomonescu,Stefan H. Uhlig Pdf

While the question of how rhetoric lost authority to modern philosophical and scientific inquiry has drawn much scrutiny, we have paid less attention to how values that were once bound up with rhetoric were rearticulated after its demise. This volume explores how persuasion ceased to be the seemingly self-evident objective of rhetoric and became, instead, a variable and substantive focus for discussion in its own right. After rhetoric ceded much of its centrality to logic and empirical procedures, the significance and implications of persuasion were the subject of renewed attention in a range of different fields, including philosophy, law, poetry, novels, botany, cultural criticism, historiography, political thought, and public lecturing. Persuasion after Rhetoric in the Eighteenth Century and Romanticism maps how values of persuasion were adapted and diversified in ways that still resonate with current arguments about conviction, understanding, and belief. Contributors address the figurations of persuasion in a range of theorists and writers, from Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, Edmund Burke, and Mary Wollstonecraft, to Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, Thomas De Quincey, Thomas Campbell, William Hazlitt, Heinrich Heine, William Lloyd Garrison, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. This collection offers a detailed account of persuasive interests at the threshold of modernity. It also prompts us to rethink persuasion now that its continued efficacy seems at risk in a fragmented public sphere.

Author : Craig R. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781527521148

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Romanticism, Rhetoric and the Search for the Sublime by Craig R. Smith Pdf

Relying on the author’s established expertise in rhetorical theory and political communication, this book re-contextualizes Romantic rhetorical theory in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to provide a foundation for a Neo-Romantic rhetorical theory for our own time. In the process, it uses a unique methodology to correct misconceptions about many Romantic writers. The methodology of the early chapters uses a dialectical approach to trace Romanticism and its opposition, the Enlightenment, back through Humanism and its opposition, Scholasticism, to St. Augustine. These chapters include a revisionist analysis of the church’s treatment of Galileo in the course of showing how difficult it was for scientific study to be accepted in the academic world. The study also re-conceptualizes Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, and Edmund Burke as bridge figures to the Romantic Era instead of as Enlightenment figures. This move throws new light on the major artists of the Romantic Era, who are examined in chapters seven and eight. Chapter nine focuses on Percy Bysshe Shelley and his development of the rhetorical poem, and thereby provides a new genre in the Romantic catalogue. Chapter ten uses the foregoing to analyse and reconceptualize the rhetorical theories of Hugh Blair and Thomas De Quincey. The concluding chapter then synthesizes their theories with relevant contemporary rhetorical theories thereby constructing a Neo-Romantic theory for our own time. In the process, this book links the Romantics’ love of nature to the current environmental crisis.

Author : Stephen H. Browne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Ethics
ISBN : WISC:89015426836

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Edmund Burke in the Humanist Tradition by Stephen H. Browne Pdf

Author : Koen Vermeir,Michael Funk Deckard
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9400721021

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The Science of Sensibility: Reading Burke's Philosophical Enquiry by Koen Vermeir,Michael Funk Deckard Pdf

Attracting philosophers, politicians, artists as well as the educated reader, Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry, first published in 1757, was a milestone in western thinking. This edited volume will take the 250th anniversary of the Philosophical Enquiry as an occasion to reassess Burke’s prominence in the history of ideas. Situated on the threshold between early modern philosophy and the Enlightenment, Burke’s oeuvre combines reflections on aesthetics, politics and the sciences. This collection is the first book length work devoted primarily to Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry in both its historical context and for its contemporary relevance. It will establish the fact that the Enquiry is an important philosophical and literary work in its own right.

Author : Craig R. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781527592926

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Romanticism, Rhetoric and the Search for the Sublime, 2nd Edition by Craig R. Smith Pdf

Relying on the author’s established expertise in rhetoric and political communication, this book re-contextualizes Romantic rhetorical theory from the late 18th and early 19th centuries to provide a foundation for a Neo-Romantic rhetorical theory for our own time. In the process, it uses a unique methodology to correct misconceptions about the rhetorical theories of many writers. Using a dialectical approach, the early chapters trace Romanticism through its opposition to the industrial revolution and the Enlightenment, back through Humanism and its opposition to Scholasticism, to its roots in St. Augustine’s writing. These chapters include a revisionist analysis of the church’s treatment of Galileo in the course of showing how difficult it was for scientific study to be accepted in Scholastic circles. The study goes on to argue that Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, and Edmund Burke were bridge figures to the Romantic Era. This move throws new light on exemplary painters, composers, writers and orators of the Romantic Era, who are examined in chapters eight and nine. Chapter ten focuses on Percy Bysshe Shelley and his development of the rhetorical poem, and thereby provides a new genre in the Romantic catalogue. Chapter Eleven turns to the Romantic rhetorical theories of Hugh Blair and Thomas De Quincey to empower those seeking to save the environment. The concluding chapter then synthesizes their theories with relevant contemporary rhetorical theories thereby constructing a Neo-Romantic theory for our own time. In the process, the book links the Romantics’ love of nature to the current environmental crisis.

Author : Rob Goodman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781316517659

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Words on Fire by Rob Goodman Pdf

Ranging from Cicero's Rome to contemporary politics, Words on Fire is a provocative rethinking of political eloquence for our time.

Author : Christopher Reid
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191655159

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Imprison'd Wranglers by Christopher Reid Pdf

Although the later eighteenth century has long been regarded as parliamentary oratory's golden age, its speaking history remains to a large extent unexplored. Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during this eventful period, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary sources including newspaper reports, parliamentary diaries, memoirs, correspondence, political cartoons, and portraiture, this book reconstructs the scene in St. Stephen's Chapel, where the Commons then sat. It shows how reputations were forged and characters contested as speakers like Burke, North, Fox, and Pitt crossed swords in confrontations that were both personal and political. With close attention to the early lives of selected MPs, it pieces together the education of the parliamentary elite from their initiation as public speakers in schools, universities, and debating clubs to the moment of trial when they rose to speak in the House for the first time. Since this was the period when the newspaper reporting of parliamentary debates was first established, the book also assesses the impact speeches made on the audiences of ordinary readers outside Parliament. It explains how parliamentary speeches got into print, what was at stake politically in that process, and argues that changing conceptions of publicness in the eighteenth century altered the image of the parliamentary speaker and unsettled the traditional rhetorical culture of the House.

Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : UOM:39015008190186

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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke Pdf

Author : James A. Harris
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191502699

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The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century by James A. Harris Pdf

Philosophy in eighteenth-century Britain was diverse, vibrant, and sophisticated. This was the age of Hume and Berkeley and Reid, of Hutcheson and Kames and Smith, of Ferguson and Burke and Wollstonecraft. Important and influential works were published in every area of philosophy, from the theory of vision to theories of political resistance, from the philosophy of language to accounts of ways of governing the passions. The philosophers of eighteenth-century Britain were enormously influential, in France, in Italy, in Germany, and in America. Their ideas and arguments remain a powerful presence in philosophy three centuries later. This Oxford Handbook is the first book ever to provide comprehensive coverage of the full range of philosophical writing in Britain in the eighteenth century. It provides accounts of the writings of all the major figures, but also puts those figures in the context provided by a host of writers less well known today. The book has five principal sections: 'Logic and Metaphysics', 'The Passions', 'Morals', 'Criticism', and 'Politics'. Each section comprises four chapters, providing detailed coverage of all of the important aspects of its subject matter. There is also an introductory section, with chapters on the general character of philosophizing in eighteenth-century Britain, and a concluding section on the important question of the relation at this time between philosophy and religion. The authors of the chapters are experts in their fields. They include philosophers, historians, political theorists, and literary critics, and they teach in colleges and universities in Britain, in Europe, and in North America.

Author : Giuseppe Ballacci
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349952939

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Political Theory between Philosophy and Rhetoric by Giuseppe Ballacci Pdf

This book explores the significance of rhetoric from the perspective of its complex relationship with philosophy. It demonstrates how this relationship gives expression to a basic tension at the core of politics: that between the contingency of its happening and the transcendence toward which it strives. The first part of the study proposes a reassessment of the ancient quarrel between philosophy and rhetoric, as it was discussed by Plato, Aristotle, and above all Cicero and Quintilian, who ambitiously attempted to bring them together creating an ideal that is at the roots of the humanist tradition. It then moves to twentieth-century political theory and shows how the questions that emerge from that quarrel still strongly resonate in the works of key thinkers such as H. Arendt, L. Strauss, and R. Rorty. The volume thus offers an original contribution that locates itself at the intersection of politics, rhetoric, and philosophy.

Author : Shawn J. Parry-Giles,J. Michael Hogan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781405178136

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The Handbook of Rhetoric and Public Address by Shawn J. Parry-Giles,J. Michael Hogan Pdf

The Handbook of Rhetoric and Public Address is a state-of-the-art companion to the field that showcases both the historical traditions and the future possibilities for public address scholarship in the twenty-first century. Focuses on public address as both a subject matter and a critical perspective Mindful of the connections between the study of public address and the history of ideas Provides an historical overview of public address research and pedagogy, as well as a reassessment of contemporary public address scholarship by those most engaged in its practice Includes in-depth discussions of basic issues and controversies public address scholarship Explores the relationship between the study of public address and contemporary issues of civic engagement and democratic citizenship Reflects the diversity of views among public address scholars, advancing on-going discussions and debates over the goals and character of rhetorical scholarship

Author : Robert Hariman
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 027104666X

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Prudence by Robert Hariman Pdf

This volume brings together scholars in classics, political philosophy, and rhetoric to analyze prudence as a distinctive and vital form of political intelligence. Through case studies from each of the major periods in the history of prudence, the authors identify neglected resources for political judgement in today's conditions of pluralism and interdependency. Three assumptions inform these essays: the many dimensions of prudence cannot be adequately represented in the lexicon of any single discipline; the Aristotelian focus on prudence as rational calculation needs to be balanced by the Ciceronian emphasis on prudence as discursive performance embedded in familiar social practices; and understanding prudence requires attention to how it operates thorough the communicative media and public discourses that constitute the political community.