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Kant and the Promise of Rhetoric

  • ISBN-13: 9780271064192
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Scott R. Stroud
  • Price: AUD $174.00
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  • Local release date: 14/10/2014
  • Format: Hardback 288 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: linguistics [CF]
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Examines Immanuel Kant's understanding of rhetoric. Argues that the general thesis that Kant disparaged rhetoric is untenable, and that communicative practices play an important role in his account of how we become better humans and create morally cultivating communities.


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Introduction: Kant and Rhetoric?

1. Tracing the Sources of Kant’s Apparent Animosity to Rhetoric

2. Kant on Beauty, Art, and Rhetoric

3. Freedom, Coercion, and the Search for the Ideal Community

4. Pedagogical Educative Rhetoric: Education, Rhetoric, and the Use of Example

5. Religious Educative Rhetoric: Religion and Ritual as Rhetorical Means of Moral Cultivation

6. Critical Educative Rhetoric: Kant and the Demands of Critical Communication

Conclusion: Rhetorical Experience and the Promise of Rhetorical Practice

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“An important, ground-breaking study on Kant’s apparently confusing take on rhetoric.”

—G. L. Ercolini, Philosophy and Rhetoric

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