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Article: Peripatetic Rhetoric After Aristotle.
- Article from:
- The Review of Metaphysics
- Article date:
- March 1, 1997
- Author:
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A spate of recent works illustrates the continuing interest of scholars in Aristotelian rhetoric. The most significant of these is Eugene Garver's Aristotle's Rhetoric: An Art of Character.(1) Two other works contain essays that focus on this text of Aristotle: Aristotle's Rhetoric: Philosophical Essays,(2) and Essays on Aristotle's Rhetoric.(3) The second of these volumes includes several abbreviated or redressed versions of articles contained in the first. A third collection, Peripatetic Rhetoric After Aristotle,(4) considers the fate of Aristotelian rhetoric in later centuries.
Garver, who holds the McNeely Chair in Thinking at St. John's University, ...