UID:
almahu_9949703473802882
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 395 pages)
ISBN:
9789004246959
Series Statement:
Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 43
Content:
This book presents a new interpretation of the two most innovative renaissance works on the use of language, Lorenzo Valla's Repastinatio dialecticae et philosophiae (1439) and Rudolph Agricola's De inventione dialectica (1479). Mack attempts to find a path through the controversies which have recently raged around Valla's work, acknowledging the originality and skill of his attack on Aristotelian logic metaphysics, but recognizing the inconsistency (and even the Aristotelianism) of his alternative system. Mack provides the first full commentary on Agricola's work in modern times, establishing its originality and coherence. Far from being a mere popularisation of Valla, De inventione dialectica turns out to be one of the great texts of the Western rhetorical tradition. The book concludes with a survey of Agricola's influence on rhetorical thinking and practices of reading and writing, through print, the educational system, and such intermediaries as Erasmus, Vives, Melanchthon and Ramus.
Note:
Preliminary Material -- Chapter One: Rhetoric, Dialectic And The Use Of Language -- Chapter Two: Valla's Repastinatio Dialecticae Et Philosophiae -- Chapter Three: Categories And Metaphysics -- Chapter Four: Valla's Contribution To Logic -- Chapter Five: Grammar, Rhetoric And Dialectic In Repastinatio -- Chapter Six: Rudolph Agricola And De Inventione Dialectica -- Chapter Seven: Agricola's Topics -- Chapter Eight: Dialectical Invention -- Chapter Nine: Exposition And Argumentation -- Chapter Ten: Book Three: Moving, Pleasing And Disposition -- Chapter Eleven: The Use Of Dialectic -- Chapter Twelve: De Inventione Dialectica In The Traditions Of Rhetoric And Dialectic -- Chapter Thirteen: The Diffusion Of De Inventione Dialectica -- Chapter Fourteen: The Reception Of De Inventione Dialectica -- Chapter Fifteen: Erasmus And Vives -- Chapter Sixteen: Melanchthon -- Chapter Seventeen: Ramus -- Chapter Eighteen: De Ιnventione Dialectica In The Sixteenth Century -- Select Bibliography -- General Index -- Index To Passages From Repastinatio -- Index To Passages From De Inventione Dialectica.
Additional Edition:
Online version: Mack, Peter, 1955- Renaissance argument. Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1993
Language:
English
