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Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason

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ISBN-10: 0226629767

ISBN-13: 9780226629766

Edition: 2004

Authors: S. J. Ong, Adrian Johns

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Renaissance logician, philosopher, humanist, and teacher, Peter Ramus (1515-72) is best known for his attack on Aristotelian logic, his radical pedagogical theories, and his new interpretation for the canon of rhetoric. His work, published in Latin and translated into many languages, has influenced the study of Renaissance literature, rhetoric, education, logic, and—more recently—media studies. Considered the most important work of Walter Ong's career, Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue is an elegant review of the history of Ramist scholarship and Ramus's quarrels with Aristotle. A key influence on Marshall McLuhan, with whom Ong enjoys the status of honorary guru among technophiles,…    
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List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/27/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 436
Size: 7.13" wide x 11.10" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Issues
Ramism in Intellectual Tradition
The Present Front
The Anonymous Center of Tradition
The Universal Language
Ramism International
Vectors in Ramus' Career
Biographical Sources
From Birth to the Regius Professorship
Regius Professor of Eloquence and Philosophy
Success, Troubles, and Death
Ramus as Teacher and Writer
The Metamorphosis and Significance of Ramus' Reputation
The Structure of Reform
The M. A. Thesis: Its Content
The M. A. Thesis: Its Authenticity
Ramus' Own Account of His Reform
The Meaning of Commentitia
Ramus on the History of Dialectic
Ramus and Italian Humanism Book Two. Background
The Distant Background: Scholasticism and the Quantification of Thought
Ramism, Humanism, and Scholasticism
Scholastic Logic: Peter of Spain
The Humanists' Bogie: The Summulae logicales
The Summulae logicales and the Probable Logics
Peter's Places
Supposition Theory and Corpuscles
Quantification and the Summulae logicales
Logic in Space: Lef�vre d'Etaples, Tartaret, Major, Celaya
The Geometry of Pedagogy: The Allegory as Diagram
The Immediate Background: Agricola's Place-Logic
The Dialectical Revolution
Rudolph Agricola
Agricola, Scholasticism, and the Gutenberg Era
Agricola's Dialectical Invention
Dialectic Defined: Discourse and Probabilities
Discourse as Teaching
Topics versus Categories: Topical Logics
Invention and Judgment
The Loci or Places: Woods and Boxes
The Fickle Places
The Impact of Agricola's Topical Logic
The Commentator's Agricola: Words and "Things"
The Common Background: Arts Scholasticism
Scholasticism in Twentieth-Century Perspective
More Arts than Theology
Philosophy for Adolescents: The Arts Course
Logic and Youth
Metaphysics, Ethics, and the Teen-agers
Scholasticism as Physics
The Scholastic Trajectory of Ramism
Ramism in Its Natural Habitat
The Pedagogical Juggernaut
Philosophy as Pedagogy
The Teacher: Man Between Two Worlds
Dialogue, Dialectic, Disputes, and Pedagogy
The Didactic Roots of Formalism
Results in Ramus' Day
Normal-School Theorems in Ramism
Dialectic to Didactic
Pedagogy and the Intelligible Universe Book Three. Ramism
The Ramist Dialectic
General Setting
First Formulations
Ramus' Remarks on Aristotle
The New Program: Training in Dialectic
Dialectic as Nature: Imitation
Dialectic as Art or Doctrine: Its Definition and Description
Invention: Questions, Arguments, Places
Judgment: First Judgment or Syllogism
Judgment: Induction, Enthymeme, Example
Judgment, Second Judgment, the Beginning of Method
Judgment: Third Judgment, Ascent to God
Dialectic as Use or Exercise
Classroom and Mnemonics, "Reason" and the Places
The Dialectical Continuum
Ramus' Topical Logic in Its Parisian Setting
The Ramist Organon: The Arts as Categories
The Dichotomies: Class Logic in Space
Species and Genera: Units and Clusters
Definitions and Distribution
The Platonic Idea as Continuum
Aristotle and Divisiveness
The Nominalist-Realist Issue
Truth among the Corpuscles
Casualties: The Four Parts of the Oration, "Copie of Worlds," Amplification
Decorum and the "Plain" Style
Amplification, Memory, and Method
Attacks and Revisions
Ramus and His Critics
Gouveia's Attack: First Mention of Method
Charpentier's Attack
The Final Dialectic
The Method of Method
Notions of Method: Medicine and Rhetoric
Ramus' Way to Method
Sturm: The Transplanting of Method from Rhetoric to Logic
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