Rhetoric: A Very Short Introduction Toye Richard Professor of Modern History University of ExeterPaperback
Rhetoric: A Very Short Introduction Toye Richard Professor of Modern History University of ExeterPaperback Rhetoric was once an essential part of western education. But skill with rhetoric today is…
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Rhetoric: A Very Short Introduction Toye Richard Professor of Modern History University of ExeterPaperback
Rhetoric was once an essential part of western education. But skill with rhetoric today is no longer admired. Aristotle wrote an important treatise on it and Demosthenes remains famous to this day for his skills as a rhetorician.
But if we view rhetoric in more neutral terms, as the art of persuasion, it is clear that we are all forced to engage with it at some level, if only because we are constantly exposed to the rhetoric of others. Rhetoric is often seen as a synonym for shallow, deceptive language-empty words, empty rhetoric--and therefore as something quite negative. In this Very Short Introduction, Richard Toye explores the purpose of rhetoric.
Rather than presenting a defense of it, he considers it as the foundation-stone of civil society, and an essential part of any democratic process. Using wide-ranging examples from ancient Greece, medieval Islamic preaching, the wartime