F. Woerther (dir.), Literary and Philosophical Rhetoric in the Greek, Roman, Syriac, and Arabic Worlds

F. Woerther (ed.), Literary and Philosophical Rhetoric in the Greek, Roman, Syriac, and Arabic Worlds, Europaea Memoria, Reihe I: Studien, Band 66, Hildesheim, Olms, 2009.

• ISBN: 978-3-487-13990-6
• Prix: 44,80 €

Présentation de l'éditeur:

This project has its origin in the following observation : in the Greek and Roman tradition and in the Syriac and Arabic tradition, there exist two kinds of « rhetorics » — literary rhetoric and philosophical rhetoric — distinguished by their goals, methods, programs, and sources.
Maintaining this distinction as a working hypothesis or a heuristic device, this book includes contributions from specialists in classical and postclassical Greek rhetoric, Roman rhetoric, the Syriac and Arabic branches of the transmission of Aristotle's Rhetoric, as well as specialists of Arabic eloquence (balāġa). These authors examine the continuities between philosophical rhetoric and literary rhetoric as these are evident in the Greek, Roman, Syriac, and Arabic worlds : Did the two kinds of rhetoric simply coexist, whereby they accepted a clear and distinct separation of tasks that fell to each ? Did they develop separately ? Did they come into mutual confrontation in the two cultural milieux ? Did they influence and enrich each other ? Did they adapt themselves in similar ways to similar social and political contexts ?
In its refusal to rest content with the western classical world, this book is intended to contribute to interdisciplinary research in rhetoric by raising a question that is common to the Greek, Roman, Syriac, and Arabic worlds.

Table des matières:

Introduction

1. Literary and Philosophical Rhetoric in Plato, Harvey YUNIS

2. La Rhétorique d'Aristote et la littérature, Pierre CHIRON

3. Isocrates : Philosophy as Refined Civic Discourse, Niall R. LIVINGSTONE

4. Philosophical Rhetoric between Dialectics and Politics : Aristotle, Hermagoras, and al-Fārābī, Frédérique WOERTHER

5. Philodemus on the Impossibility of a « Philosophical Rhetoric », David BLANK

6. Stoic Rhetoric between Technique and Philosophy : the Example of Diogenes of Babylon, Sophie AUBERT

7. Philosophical Decorum and the Literarization of Rhetoric in Ciceroʼs Orator, Charles GUERIN

8. Literary and Philosophical Rhetoric in Syriac, John W. WATT

9. Al-Fārābī critique des traditions non aristotéliciennes de la rhétorique, Maroun AOUAD

10. The Role of Rhetoric in Averroesʼ Short Commentaries on Aristotleʼs Logic, Charles E. BUTTERWORTH

11. Mais quʼest-ce donc que la balāġa ?, Pierre LARCHER

12. Early Ornate Prose and the Rhetorization of Poetry in Arabic Literature, Wolfhart P. HEINRICHS

13. Al-Jāḥiẓ and his Rhetoric of Silence, Lale BEHZADI

14. Aux sources interprétatives de la rhétorique arabe et de lʼexégèse coranique : la non transparence du langage, de la racine /b-y-n/ dans le Coran aux conceptions dʼal-Ğāḥiẓ et dʼIbn Qutayba, Joseph DICHY

Bibliography

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Indices

Index nominum antiquorum et mediaevalium

Index nominum recentiorum