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The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentation| Media: | Paperback | | Author: | Chaim Perelman | | Publisher: | University of Notre Dame Press | | Release date: | 01 June, 1969 | | Our price: | $25.00 |
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The 20th century's masterwork on... |
It's not really about rhetoric; it's about dialectic. Perelman points out early on that he avoided the term dialectic, because of its Marxist and Hegelian overtones. But his source for the work is Aristotle's Topics, a work about dialectic. Because rhetoric and dialectic are companion (if competing) theories of discourse, Perelman felt comfortable updating the term rhetoric (by using the adjective "New").
This book is a compelling statement about dialectic for the modern world. |
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Not just plain math! |
| This book is a masterpiece in the subject of argumentation. Since Descartes the rethorical argumentation got a bad conotation, as a disguise to fold the truth. But, as Perelman brightly teachs, not all structures of the reality can be describe just by the formal (mathematical) logics. In fact, some "truths" can only be discovered by using argumentation, such as political or moral subjects. In a democratic scene, the awakening of a new logic is needed, because the mathematical method can not be aplied to all areas of thinking anymore. |
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