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Five Chapters on Rhetoric:

Character, Action, Things, Nothing, and Art
  • ISBN-13: 9780271034560
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Michael S. Kochin
  • Price: AUD $67.99
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  • Local release date: 29/08/2012
  • Format: Paperback 184 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Political science & theory [JPA]
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Examines concepts for persuasive communication. Explores the art of rhetoric and how it aids in clarification when we speak to communicate, but also helps to protect us from clarity when we speak to maintain our connections to others.


Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Character

2. Action

3. Things

4. Nothing

5. Art

Postscript: How to Begin to Analyze a Speech

Select Bibliography

Index


“Is it possible to say something new about one of the oldest topics of political philosophy, the question of rhetoric? Michael Kochin’s penetrating book proves that it is. He does so by taking seriously a whole range of sources on political speech, communication, and persuasion, from Aristotle and Demosthenes to social science on the nature of public opinion to Bruno Latour’s sociology of knowledge, and by reflecting on the topic in unusual depth. His book is original and it has a provocative simplicity.”

—Bryan Garsten, Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly

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