Overview
- Provides answers to much discussed issues about Cicero’s and Aristotle’s work on topoi
- Explores on a philological/conceptual basis the relationship between Aristotle’s and Cicero’s work on topoi
- Offers a historical perspective on topoi, with an attention for its utility for modern argumentation theory
- The first monograph to comprehensively focus on the treatment of topoi by both Aristotle and Cicero and to make a detailed comparison between the two authors
- A must-read for anyone working on ancient logic and ancient argumentation theory
Part of the book series: Argumentation Library (ARGA, volume 15)
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Creation of the Method of Topoi and Its Characteristics
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Front Matter
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Topoi and Loci
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Back Matter
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About this book
Ars Topica is the first full-length study of the nature and development of topoi, the conceptual ancestors of modern argument schemes, between Aristotle and Cicero.
Aristotle and Cicero configured topoi in a way that influenced the subsequent tradition. Their work on the topos-system grew out of an interest in creating a theory of argumentation which could stand between the rigour of formal logic and the emotive potential of rhetoric. This system went through a series of developments and transformations resulting from the interplay between the separate aims of gaining rhetorical effectiveness and of maintaining dialectical standards.
Ars Topica presents a comprehensive treatment of Aristotle’s and Cicero’s methods of topoi and, by exploring their relationship, it illuminates an area of ancient rhetoric and logic which has been obscured for more than two thousand years.
Through an interpretation which is philologically rooted in the historical context of topoi, the book lays the ground for evaluating the relevance of the classical approaches to modern research on arguments, and at the same time provides an introduction to Greek and Roman theory of argumentation focussed on its most important theoretical achievements.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ars Topica
Book Subtitle: The Classical Technique of Constructing Arguments from Aristotle to Cicero
Authors: Sara Rubinelli
Series Title: Argumentation Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9549-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9548-1Published: 28 April 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8153-7Published: 22 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-9549-8Published: 14 April 2009
Series ISSN: 1566-7650
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1907
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 160
Topics: Logic, Classical Philosophy, Philology, Classical Studies, Philosophy of Language