The Rhetoricity of Philosophy: Audience in Perelman and Ricoeur after the Badiou-Cassin Debate [Hardcover]

Introduction? 1. The Enemy of My Enemy: Philosophy, Sophistics, and Rhetoric in the Badiou-Cassin Debate? 2. The Audience in Perelman and Olbrechts-Tytecas New Rhetoric? 3. Rhetoric on Trial (I): Badiou v. Perelman? 4. Rhetoric on Trial (II): Cassin v. Perelman? 5. Extending the Audience: Ricoeurs Missed Encounter with Perelman? 6. Ricoeur and the Rhetoricity of Philosophy? Conclusion: Is Rhetoric a Dead End for Philosophy?

This book aims to recast the way that philosophers understand rhetoric. Rather than follow most philosophers in conceiving rhetoric as a specific way of speaking or writing, it shows that rhetoric is better understood as a dimension of all human discourse and actionwhat the author calls rhetoricity.

This is a book that needed to be written at this particular moment in the development of the relationship between philosophy and rhetoric in the twenty-first century. It puts in conversation four key thinkers in those fields who have not been dealt with together in such detail and with such insight. Its argument that an expanded notion of rhetorical audience will prove fruitful for contemporary philosophy is persuasively presented and should provoke productive discussion within philosophy and between philosophers and rhetoricians.

Steven Mailloux,/Loyola Marymount University, USA

The Rhetoricity of Philosophy/is significant for philosophy and rhetoric alike, but not simply because it uncovers rhetoric as the point of commonality in the Cassin-Badiou debate, nor because it discerns the limitations of the conceptions of rhetoric in both Perelmans New Rhetoric Project and Ricoeurs hermeneutics. Ilƒ¡