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An Introduction to Classical Rhetoric

Essential Readings

By: James D. Williams

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An Introduction to Classical Rhetoric

Essential Readings

By: James D. Williams

An anthology of primary texts in translation, An Introduction to Classical Rhetoric offers an overview of the social, cultural, and intellectual factors that influenced the development and growth of rhetoric during the classical period. Uses primary source material to analyze rhetoric from the Sophists through St. Augustine Provides an in-depth introduction to the period, as well as introductions to each author and each selection Includes study guides to help students develop multiple perspectives on the material, stimulate critical thinking, and provide starting points for dialogue Highlights include Gorgias's Palamedes, Antiphon's Truth, Isocrates' Helen, and Plato's Protagoras Each selection is followed by suggested writing topics and a short list of suggested additional readings.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1405158603

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Rethinking the Rhetorical Tradition

From Plato to Postmodernism

By: James L. Kastely

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Rethinking the Rhetorical Tradition

From Plato to Postmodernism

By: James L. Kastely

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.

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310

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Yale University Press

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0300068387

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9780300068382

The History and Theory of Rhetoric

An Introduction

By: James A. Herrick

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The History and Theory of Rhetoric

An Introduction

By: James A. Herrick

By tracing the traditional progression of rhetoric from the Greek Sophists to contemporary theorists, this textbook gives students a conceptual framework for evaluating and practicing persuasive writing and speaking in a wide range of settings and in both written and visual media. The book’s expansive historical purview illustrates how persuasive public discourse performs essential social functions and shapes our daily worlds, drawing on the ideas of some of history’s greatest thinkers and theorists. The seventh edition includes greater attention to non-Western rhetorics, feminist rhetorics, the rhetoric of science, and European and American critical theory. Known for its clear writing style and contemporary examples throughout, The History and Theory of Rhetoric emphasizes the relevance of rhetoric to today’s students. This revised edition serves as a core textbook for rhetoric courses in both English and communication programs covering both the historical tradition of rhetoric and contemporary rhetoric studies. This edition includes an instructor’s manual and practice quizzes for students at www.routledge.com/cw/herrick

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Routledge

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1000288757

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Unabridged Dictionary of Sensations as If

By: James William Ward

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Unabridged Dictionary of Sensations as If

By: James William Ward

A compilation from Hahnemann's Materia Medica, Allen's Encyclopaedia and Clarke's Dictionary. Divided into 2 sections, pathogenic symptoms and clinical symptoms. Vol. 1 provings; Vol. 2 clinical verifications.

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B. Jain Publishers

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817021047X

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Regret

A Study in Ancient Moral Psychology

By: James Warren

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Regret

A Study in Ancient Moral Psychology

By: James Warren

This book provides a study of regret in the moral psychology of Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics. Warren provides a detailed account of their views on the nature of this emotion, as related to their understanding of virtue and ethical knowledge and development.

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Oxford University Press

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0198840268

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When Words Lose Their Meaning

Constitutions and Reconstitutions of Language, Character, and Community

By: James Boyd White

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When Words Lose Their Meaning

Constitutions and Reconstitutions of Language, Character, and Community

By: James Boyd White

Through fresh readings of texts ranging from Homer's Iliad, Swift's Tale of a Tub, and Austen's Emma through the United States Constitution and McCulloch v. Maryland, James Boyd White examines the relationship between an individual mind and its language and culture as well as the "textual community" established between writer and audience. These striking textual analyses develop a rhetoric—a "way of reading" that can be brought to any text but that, in broader terms, becomes a way of learning that can shape the reader's life. "In this ambitious and demanding work of literary criticism, James Boyd White seeks to communicate 'a sense of reading in a new and different way.' . . . [White's] marriage of lawyerly acumen and classically trained literary sensibility—equally evident in his earlier work, The Legal Imagination—gives the best parts of When Words Lose Their Meaning a gravity and moral earnestness rare in the pages of contemporary literary criticism."—Roger Kimball, American Scholar "James Boyd White makes a state-of-the-art attempt to enrich legal theory with the insights of modern literary theory. Of its kind, it is a singular and standout achievement. . . . [White's] selections span the whole range of legal, literary, and political offerings, and his writing evidences a sustained and intimate experience with these texts. Writing with natural elegance, White manages to be insightful and inciteful. Throughout, his timely book is energized by an urgent love of literature and law and their liberating potential. His passion and sincerity are palpable."—Allan C. Hutchinson, Yale Law Journal "Undeniably a unique and significant work. . . . When Words Lose Their Meaning is a rewarding book by a distinguished legal scholar. It is a showcase for the most interesting sort of inter-disciplinary work: the kind that brings together from traditionally separate fields not so much information as ideas and approaches."—R. B. Kershner, Jr., Georgia Review

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University of Chicago Press

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022605604X

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Deep Rhetoric

Philosophy, Reason, Violence, Justice, Wisdom

By: James Crosswhite

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Deep Rhetoric

Philosophy, Reason, Violence, Justice, Wisdom

By: James Crosswhite

“Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic,” claimed Aristotle. “Rhetoric is the first part of logic rightly understood,” Martin Heidegger concurred. “Rhetoric is the universal form of human communication,” opined Hans-Georg Gadamer. But in Deep Rhetoric, James Crosswhite offers a groundbreaking new conception of rhetoric, one that builds a definitive case for an understanding of the discipline as a philosophical enterprise beyond basic argumentation and is fully conversant with the advances of the New Rhetoric of Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca. Chapter by chapter, Deep Rhetoric develops an understanding of rhetoric not only in its philosophical dimension but also as a means of guiding and conducting conflicts, achieving justice, and understanding the human condition. Along the way, Crosswhite restores the traditional dignity and importance of the discipline and illuminates the twentieth-century resurgence of rhetoric among philosophers, as well as the role that rhetoric can play in future discussions of ontology, epistemology, and ethics. At a time when the fields of philosophy and rhetoric have diverged, Crosswhite returns them to their common moorings and shows us an invigorating new way forward.

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University of Chicago Press

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022601651X

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The Rebirth of Dialogue

Bakhtin, Socrates, and the Rhetorical Tradition

By: James P. Zappen

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The Rebirth of Dialogue

Bakhtin, Socrates, and the Rhetorical Tradition

By: James P. Zappen

Dialogue has suffered a long eclipse in the history of philosophy and the history of rhetoric but has enjoyed a rebirth in the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer, Martin Buber, and Mikhail Bakhtin. Among twentieth-century figures, Bakhtin took a special interest in the history of the dialogue form. This book explores Bakhtin's understanding of Socratic dialogue and the notion that dialogue is not simply a way of persuading others to accept our ideas, but a way of holding ourselves, and others, accountable for all of our thoughts, words, and actions. In supporting this premise, Bakhtin challenges the traditions of argument and persuasion handed down from Plato and Aristotle, and he offers, as an alternative, a dialogical rhetoric that restructures the traditional relationship between speakers and listeners, writers and readers, as a mutual testing, contesting, and creating of ideas. The author suggests that Bakhtin's dialogical rhetoric is not restricted to oral discourse, but is possible in any medium, including written, graphic, and digital.

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State University of New York Press

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0791484904

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9780791484906

History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth

By: James Anthony Froude

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History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth

By: James Anthony Froude

First published between 1858 and 1870, this twelve-volume history argues that the English Reformation enabled modernity.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108035620

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Neoplatonic Pedagogy and the Alcibiades I

Crafting the Contemplative

By: James M. Ambury

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Neoplatonic Pedagogy and the Alcibiades I

Crafting the Contemplative

By: James M. Ambury

Many philosophers in the ancient world shared a unitary vision of philosophy – meaning 'love of wisdom' – not just as a theoretical discipline, but as a way of life. Specifically, for the late Neoplatonic thinkers, philosophy began with self-knowledge, which led to a person's inner conversion or transformation into a lover, a human being erotically striving toward the totality of the real. This metamorphosis amounted to a complete existential conversion. It was initiated by learned guides who cultivated higher and higher levels of virtue in their students, leading, in the end, to their vision of the Good, or the One. In this book, James M. Ambury closely analyses two central texts in this tradition: the commentaries by Proclus (412–485 AD) and Olympiodorus (495–560 AD) on the Platonic Alcibiades I. Ambury's powerful study illuminates the way philosophy was conceived during a crucial period of its history, in the lecture halls of late antiquity.

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1009117971

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Across the Top of the World

The Quest for the Northwest Passage

By: James Delgado

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Across the Top of the World

The Quest for the Northwest Passage

By: James Delgado

The centuries-long quest for the fabled Northwest Passage rivals the story of Antarctic exploration for heroism, drama, and tragedy. Expedition after expedition set off in search of a sea route connecting Europe with Asia's riches; each expedition suffered extreme hardship and ended in defeat, until Roald Amundsen finally succeeded in 1903-06. Across the Top of the World brings this incredible saga to life through exhaustive research, grim firsthand accounts, and hundreds of dramatic images. Paintings, engravings, and photos of the intrepid men and their ships, as well as of relics and archaeological sites, provide a poignant and compelling link with the past, while landscapes and seascapes of the harsh yet beautiful Arctic illustrate the challenges that faced explorers. Covering all the major expeditions in detail, and written with passion and authority, this book is both a scholarly reference and an eminently readable history of Arctic exploration.

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D & M Publishers

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1926706536

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Book's by James Polus

An Introduction to Classical Rhetoric

An Introduction to Classical Rhetoric

Rethinking the Rhetorical Tradition

Rethinking the Rhetorical Tradition

The History and Theory of Rhetoric

The History and Theory of Rhetoric

Unabridged Dictionary of Sensations as If

Unabridged Dictionary of Sensations as If

Regret

Regret

When Words Lose Their Meaning

When Words Lose Their Meaning

Deep Rhetoric

Deep Rhetoric

The Rebirth of Dialogue

The Rebirth of Dialogue

History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth

History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth

Neoplatonic Pedagogy and the Alcibiades I

Neoplatonic Pedagogy and the Alcibiades I

Across the Top of the World

Across the Top of the World

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