Rhetoric : essays in invention and discovery /
The essays of Richard McKeon have long circulated piecemeal among scholars who see him as the leading twentieth-century philosopher and historian of rhetoric. This volume brings together McKeon's seminal works in rhetoric and philosophy, and vividly demonstrates the basis for this extraordinary...
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Woodbridge, CT :
Ox Bow Press,
©1987.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Richard Mckeon and the renaissance of rhetoric
- The uses of rhetoric in a technological age : architectonic productive arts
- Creativity and the commonplace
- Discourse, demonstration, verification, and justification
- The methods of rhetoric and philosophy : invention and judgement
- Symbols, myths, and arguments
- Philosophy of communication and the arts
- Rhetoric in the Middle Ages
- Poetry and philosophy in the twelfth century : The renaissance of rhetoric
- A philosopher meditates on discovery.