From <i>Vita contemplativa to vitaactiva</i> : Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's Rhetorical Turn

Advances in the History of Rhetoric Jan 2004

From <i>Vita contemplativa to vitaactiva</i> : Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's Rhetorical Turn

David Frank ; Michelle Bolduc

Abstract

Abstract Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's Traité de Vargumentation: la nouvelle rhétorique marked a revolution in twentieth-century rhetorical theory. In this essay, we trace Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca's turn from logical positivism and the accepted belief that reason's domain was the vita contemplativa to rhetoric and its use as a reason designed for the vita activa. Our effort to tell the story of their rhetorical turn, which took place between 1944 and 1950, is informed by an account of the context in which they considered questions of reason, responsibility, and action in the wake of World War II.

Journal: Advances in the History of Rhetoric
Published: 2004-01-01
DOI: 10.1080/15362426.2004.10557226
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Topics: rhetorical theory multimodality race and writing multilingual writers argument

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