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Author : Erec R. Koch
Publisher : Rookwood Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1886365059
Author : Patricia Topliss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:901709468
Author : Thomas Parker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135915902
This study identifies and analyzes a compelling theory and practice of persuasion that integrates the complexity of human desire. It demonstrates how the philosophical component in Pascal's description of the will makes a seamless integration into a vehicle of persuasion and poetics, providing a privileged viewpoint for understanding the author's complete works, arguing that the notion of will is of fundamental importance in Pascal's anthropology as well as in his rhetoric. This avenue of interpretation is both fruitful and difficult, because the word "volonte" means very different things in Pascal and in modern French. Beginning by contextualizing the notion of 'volonte' and explaining its expanded use in the seventeenth-century lexicon, the author then endeavors to show that Pascal borrows an essentially Augustinian paradigm of desire to create a depiction of the will divided against itself, surreptitiously yearning for what its bearer does not want.
Author : Patricia Topliss
Publisher : Leicester, LeicesterU. P
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015008495569
Author : Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89105677892
Author : Hanneke Grootenboer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-12-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226309705
Perspective determines how we, as viewers, perceive painting. We can convince ourselves that a painting of a bowl of fruit or a man in a room appears to be real by the way these objects are rendered. Likewise, the trick of perspective can prevent us from being absorbed in a scene. Connecting contemporary critical theory with close readings of seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture, The Rhetoric of Perspective puts forth the claim that painting is a form of thinking and that perspective functions as the language of the image. Aided by a stunning full-color gallery, Hanneke Grootenboer proposes a new theory of perspective based on the phenomenological aspects of non-narrative still-life, trompe l'oeil, and anamorphic imagery. Drawing on playful and mesmerizing baroque images, Grootenboer characterizes what she calls their "sophisticated deceit," asserting that painting is more about visual representation than about its supposed objects. Offering an original theory of perspective's impact on pictorial representation, the act of looking, and the understanding of truth in painting, Grootenboer shows how these paintings both question the status of representation and explore the limits and credibility of perception. “An elegant and honourable synthesis.”—Keith Miller, Times Literary Supplement
Author : Vernon Hyde Minor
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781442617704
Intricate, expressive, given to grandeur and even excess, Baroque art as a style is inseparable from the meanings it seeks to convey. Vernon Hyde Minor’s Baroque Visual Rhetoric probes this combination of style and message and – equally importantly – the methodological basis on which the critical art historian comes to establish that meaning. Drawing on a breathtaking range of critical literature, from the German founders of art history as an academic discipline to Heidegger, Derrida, and de Man, Minor considers the issue through a series of Baroque masterpieces: Bernini’s Baldacchino in St. Peter’s Basilica, the statues in the church of San Giovanni in Laterano, Borromini’s church of Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza, Baciccio’s frescoes in the church of Il Gesù, the paintings of Philippe de Champaigne, and the Corsini Chapel in San Giovanni in Laterano.
Author : Richard Lockwood
Publisher : Librairie Droz
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 2600001409
Author : James L. Kastely
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300068387
What is the role of rhetoric in a civil society? In this thought-provoking book, James L. Kastely examines works by writers from Plato to Jane Austen and locates a line of thinking that values rhetoric but also raises questions about the viability of rhetorical practice. While dealing principally with literary theory, rhetoric, and philosophy, the author's arguments extend to practical concerns and open up the way to deeper thinking about individual responsibility for existing injustices, for inadvertently injuring others, and for silencing those without power.
Author : William Wood
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191630385
Blaise Pascal's account of the cognitive consequences of the Fall is clearly set out by William Wood in the first book on Pascal's theology to appear in English in more than forty years. Wood's central claim is that for Pascal, the Fall is a fall into duplicity. Pascal holds that as fallen selves in a fallen world, human beings have an innate aversion to the truth that is also, at the same time, an aversion to God. According to Pascal, we are born into a duplicitous world that shapes us into duplicitous subjects, and so we find it easy to reject God continually and deceive ourselves about our own sinfulness. Pascal's account of the noetic effects of sin has long been overlooked by theologians, but it is both traditional and innovative. It is robustly Augustinian, with a strong emphasis on the fallen will, the darkened intellect, and the fundamental sin of pride. Yet it also embraces a view of subjectivity that seems strikingly contemporary. For Pascal, the self is a fiction, constructed from without by an already duplicitous world. The human subject is habituated to deception because it is the essential glue that holds his world together. This book offers more than just a novel interpretation of Pascal's Pensées. Wood demonstrates, by exegetical argument and constructive example, that 'Pascalian' theology is both possible and fruitful.
Author : Michael Hawcroft
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198160070
Setting out the principles of rhetoric with a wide range of illustrative examples in the first chapter, the author then explores rhetoric at work in different genres, via a close reading of texts.
Author : Hugh M. Davidson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993-09-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0521331935
This book examines the ways in which Pascal posed and solved intellectual problems in his immense and varied output. Hugh Davidson shows how three of the classical "liberal arts"-- rhetoric, dialectic and geometry--pervade Pascal's method as liberating and guiding influences in his search for truth, both in his attacks on and in his defenses of tradition. Professor Davidson throws new light on both the diversity and the unity of Pascal's thought, and places it in the context of other seventeenth-century innovations in the use of traditional disciplines.
Author : Thomas M. Carr
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780809386482
A careful analysis of the rhetorical thought of René Descartes and of a distinguished group of post-Cartesians. Covering a unique range of authors, including Bernard Lamy and Nicolas Malebranche, Carr attacks the idea, which has become commonplace in contemporary criticism, that the Cartesian system is incompatible with rhetoric. Carr analyzes the writings of Balzac, the Port-Royalists Arnauld and Nicole, Malebranche, and Lamy, exploring the evolution of Descartes’ thought into their different theories of rhetoric. He constructs his arguments, probing each author’s writings on rhetoric, persuasion, and attention, to demonstrate the basis for rhetorical thought present in Descartes’ theory of persuasion when it is combined with his psychophysiology of attention.
Author : Stephen C. Bold
Publisher : Librairie Droz
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : France
ISBN : 2600001557
Author : D. Adamson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1994-12-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230377028
This chronological survey explores Pascal's (162362) achievement as mathematician, physicist and religious thinker; it also has a chapter on his life. His work on conic sections, the probability calculus, number theory, cycloid curves and hydrostatics is considered in detail. Analyses of the Provincial Letters and the Thoughts bring out the many distinctive features, thematicnn and technical, of each text. Pascal's lesser known works are also studied. There is a chapter on the Wager argument. A wide-ranging bibliography completes the book.