On Rhetoric A Theory of Civic Discourse

Name: On Rhetoric A Theory of Civic Discourse
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ISBN: 9780195305098

ISBN-10: 0195305094

ISBN-13: 9780195305098

Edition: 2nd 2006 (Revised)

Authors: Aristotle, George A. Kennedy, Aristotle

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This new edition of George A. Kennedy's highly acclaimed translation and commentary offers the most faithful English version ever published of On Rhetoric. Based on careful study of the Greek text and informed by the best modern scholarship, the second edition has been fully revised and updated. As in the first edition, Kennedy makes the work readily accessible to modern students by providing an insightful general introduction, helpful section introductions, a detailed outline, extensive explanatory notes, and a glossary of Aristotle's rhetorical terms. Striving to convey a sense of Aristotle's distinctive way of thinking, Kennedy preserves the meaning and technical language of the original…

Book details

List price: $94.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/13/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 8.19" wide x 5.39" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Prooemion


Notes on the Translation


Introduction



Aristotle's Life and Works



Rhetoric Before Aristotle



Aristotle's Classification of Rhetoric



Aristotle's Original Audience and His Audience Today



The Strengths and Limitations of On Rhetoric



Chapter-by-Chapter Outline of On Rhetoric



Pisteis, or The Means of Persuasion in Public Address



Pisteis, or The Means of Persuasion in Public Address (continued)



Delivery, Style, and Arrangement



Supplementary Texts



Gorgias' Encomium of Helen



Socrates' Critique of Sophistic Rhetoric



Lysias' Speech Against the Grain Dealers



Introduction to Dialectic from Aristotle, Topics 1.1-3



Two Selections from Isocrates



from Against the Sophists



from Antidosis



Selections from Rhetoric for Alexander



On Word Choice and Metaphor from Aristotle's Poetics



Demosthenes' Third Philippic



Supplementary Essays



The Earliest Rhetorical Handbooks



The History of the Text After Aristotle


Glossary


Bibliography


Index