The Promise of Reason: Studies in the New Rhetoric

Bys: Jeanne Fahnest, Barbara Warnick, Noemi Mattis

No single work is more responsible for the heightened interest in argumentation and informal reasoning and their relation to ethics and jurisprudence in the late twentieth century than Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca s monumental study of argumentation, "La Nouvelle Rhetorique: Traite de l'Argumentation." Published in 1958 and translated into English as "The New Rhetoric" in 1969, this influential volume returned the study of reason to classical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809330253
• ISBN13: 9780809330256
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"