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Author Dow, Jamie, author

Title Passions and persuasion in Aristotle's Rhetoric / Jamie Dow
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource
Series Oxford Aristotle studies
Oxford Aristotle studies.
Contents Rhetoric and the state -- Aristotle and his predecessors -- Proof-reading Aristotle's Rhetoric -- Rhetoric and the state -- Aristotle against his rivals -- The intepretation of Aristotle's Rhetoric -- How can emotion-arousal provide proof? -- A supposed contradiction about emotion-arousal in Aristotle's Rhetoric -- The passions in Aristotle's Rhetoric -- Aristotle's theory of the passions -- passions as pleasures and pains -- Feeling fantastic again -- passions, appearances, and beliefs in Aristotle
Summary Jamie Dow presents an original treatment of Aristotle's views on rhetoric and the passions, and the first major study of Aristotle's 'Rhetoric' in recent years. He attributes to Aristotle a normative view of rhetoric and its role in the state, and ascribes to him a particular view of the kinds of cognitions involved in the passions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 21, 2015)
Subject Aristotle. Rhetoric.
SUBJECT Rhetoric (Aristotle) fast
Subject Persuasion (Rhetoric)
Emotions (Philosophy)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
Emotions (Philosophy)
Persuasion (Rhetoric)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191784996
0191784990
9780191025563
0191025569