The Rhetoric and the Poetics of Aristotle - Couverture souple

Aristotle

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ISBN 10 : 1481274694 ISBN 13 : 9781481274692

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

Two of the most influential texts in Western literary and rhetorical tradition—now available in one essential volume.

In Poetics and Rhetoric, the great Greek philosopher Aristotle lays the foundation for how we understand literature, drama, and persuasive communication to this day. Poetics is the earliest surviving work of literary theory in the Western world, exploring the nature of storytelling, the structure of tragedy, and the core elements of epic and dramatic poetry. Rhetoric offers Aristotle’s systematic study of the art of persuasion—defining ethos, pathos, and logos, and detailing techniques that remain central to speechmaking, argumentation, and communication today.

Whether you're a student of the humanities, a writer seeking classical guidance, or simply a curious reader exploring the origins of literary criticism and persuasive technique, this combined edition offers powerful insights into the mechanics of language, performance, and influence.

Rediscover the works that shaped drama, criticism, philosophy, and communication for over two thousand years.
If you're interested in how stories move us—or how words can change minds—this is where it all began.

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À propos de l'auteur

Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato's teacher), Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. Aristotle's writings were the first to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality and aesthetics, logic and science, politics and metaphysics. Aristotle's views on the physical sciences profoundly shaped medieval scholarship, and their influence extended well into the Renaissance, although they were ultimately replaced by Newtonian physics. In the zoological sciences, some of his observations were confirmed to be accurate only in the 19th century. His works contain the earliest known formal study of logic, which was incorporated in the late 19th century into modern formal logic. In metaphysics, Aristotelianism had a profound influence on philosophical and theological thinking in the Islamic and Jewish traditions in the Middle Ages, and it continues to influence Christian theology, especially the scholastic tradition of the Catholic Church. His ethics, though always influential, gained renewed interest with the modern advent of virtue ethics. All aspects of Aristotle's philosophy continue to be the object of active academic study today. Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues (Cicero described his literary style as "a river of gold"), it is thought that the majority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third of the original works have survived.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1481274694
• ISBN 13: 9781481274692
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 194
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