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Title: The Art of Rhetoric (Penguin Classics) by Aristotle, Hugh Lawson-Tancred ISBN: 0-14-044510-2 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: March, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (4 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Very weak translation of a very important book
Comment: Both the introduction and the translation by Hugh Lawson-Tancred are very much below the standard one expects from Penguin. Most importantly, the English of the translation is frequently incomprehensible. I advise everyone who wants to study this masterpiece of a book to use another edition, e.g. that of George Kennedy, published by Oxford in 1991, or the Loeb edition. That is, if you want to understand why so many people in so many ages found this book brilliant!
Rating: 4
Summary: The Headwaters of the River of Persuasion
Comment: As a trial lawyer and a pragmatist, I've long dismissed philosophy as the useless art of contemplating one's navel. That assessment began to change recently when I audited a continuing legal education seminar in which the speaker analyzed trial advocacy on the model of Aristotle's "Rhetoric." His speech was brief and his analysis superficial, but he'd aroused my curiosity. I got this book and read it.
The general principles Aristotle formulated for forensic rhetoric over 2,000 years ago still hold true in the 21st century courtroom. Some of the specifics have changed (e.g. no torture for slave witnesses), but human nature hasn't, and human persuasion hasn't, either. Aristotle's "Rhetoric" should be required reading for all first year law students. I regret not reading it 30 years ago. Apparently philosphers do more than just stare at their navels.
Rating: 3
Summary: Too Much
Comment: Aristotle proved too much for me in this book. As a person who really has no background in Philosophy this was a tough read. He just seemed to be stating the same points over and over. This is not the book to start with if you are interested in Greek thought.
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Title: A Rulebook for Arguments by Anthony Weston ISBN: 0872205525 Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co. Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: The Rhetoric and the Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle ISBN: 0075546027 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: December, 1984 List Price(USD): $9.25 |
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Title: Cicero on Oratory and Orators (Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address) by Marcus Tullius Cicero, J.S. Watson ISBN: 080931293X Publisher: Southern Illinois Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: December, 1986 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student by Edward P. J. Corbett, Robert J. Connors ISBN: 0195115422 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: August, 1998 List Price(USD): $56.95 |
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Title: Rhetorica ad Herennium by Cicero, Harry Caplan ISBN: 0674994442 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 1981 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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