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The New Rhetoric and the Humanities

Essays on Rhetoric and its Applications

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Authors:
  1. Chaïm Perelman

    1. University of Brussels, Belgium

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Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 140)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. The New Rhetoric: A Theory of Practical Reasoning

    • Chaïm Perelman
    Pages 1-42

  3. Rhetoric And Philosophy

    • Chaïm Perelman
    Pages 43-51

  4. Philosophy, Rhetoric, Commonplaces

    • Chaïm Perelman
    Pages 52-61

  5. The Philosophy of Pluralism and The New Rhetoric

    • Chaïm Perelman
    Pages 62-72

  6. Dialectic and Dialogue

    • Chaïm Perelman
    Pages 73-81

  7. Rhetorical Perspectives on Semantic Problems

    • Chaïm Perelman
    Pages 82-90

  8. Analogy and Metaphor in Science, Poetry and Philosophy

    • Chaïm Perelman
    Pages 91-100

  9. Scientific Methodology and Open Philosophy

    • Chaïm Perelman
    Pages 101-106

  10. Behaviorism’s Enlightened Despotism

    • Chaïm Perelman
    Pages 107-110

  11. Disagreement and Rationality

    • Chaïm Perelman
    Pages 111-116

  12. The Rational and The Reasonable

    • Chaïm Perelman
    Pages 117-123

  13. Reflections on Practical Reason

    • Chaïm Perelman
    Pages 124-133

  14. The Role of the Model in Education

    • Chaïm Perelman
    Pages 134-137

  15. Authority, Ideology and Violence

    • Chaïm Perelman
    Pages 138-145

  16. Meaning and Categories in History

    • Chaïm Perelman
    Pages 146-158

  17. Classicism and Romanticism in Argumentation

    • Chaïm Perelman
    Pages 159-167

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 168-180
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About this book

Modern logic has Wldergone some remarkable developments in the last hun­ dred years. These have contributed to the extraordinary use of formal logic which has become essentially the concern of mathematicians. This has led to attempts to identify logic with formal logic. The claim has even been made that all non-formal reasoning, to the extent that it cannot be formalized, no longer belongs to logic. This conception leads to a genuine impoverishment of logic as well as to a narrow conception of reason. It means that as soon as demonstrative proofs are no longer available reason will no longer dominate. Even the idea of the 'reasonable' becomes foreign to logic and such expres­ sions as 'reasonable decisions', 'reasonable choice' or 'reasonable hypotheses' would be put aside as meaningless. The domain of action, including method­ ology and everything that is given over to deliberation or controversy - i.e., foreign to formal logic - would become a battleground where necessarily the reason of the strongest would always prevail.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Brussels, Belgium

    Chaïm Perelman

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The New Rhetoric and the Humanities

  • Book Subtitle: Essays on Rhetoric and its Applications

  • Authors: Chaïm Perelman

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9482-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1979

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1018-5Published: 30 November 1979

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1019-2Published: 30 November 1979

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-9482-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 180

  • Topics: Logic, Social Sciences, general

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