Kant and the promise of rhetoric /

"Examines Immanuel Kant's understanding of rhetoric. Argues that the general thesis that Kant disparaged rhetoric is untenable, and that communicative practices play an important role in his account of how we become better humans and create morally cultivating communities"--Provided b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stroud, Scott R. (Author)
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2014]
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Tracing the sources of Kant's apparent animosity to rhetoric
  • Kant on beauty, art, and rhetoric
  • Freedom, coercion, and the search for the ideal community
  • Pedagogical educative rhetoric : education, rhetoric, and the use of example
  • Religious educative rhetoric : religion and ritual as rhetorical means of moral cultivation
  • Critical educative rhetoric : Kant and the demands of critical communication.