Rhetoric and Philosophy in Hobbes' Leviathan Contributor(s): Prokhovnik, Raia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0367331039 ISBN-13: 9780367331030 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy - Business & Economics |
Series: Routledge Library Editions: 17th Century Philosophy |
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.01 lbs) 268 pages |
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Publisher Description: Originally published in 1991. This book explicitly examines rhetoric as the art of persuasion in the practical world, and as in the expression of thinking in the language a speaker uses. It presents Leviathan in terms of the philosophical character of the work considered through Hobbes' use of language to express and organise his thought. Throughout, the nature of the relationship between rhetoric and philosophy is discussed and the problems of language in philosophical understanding. The book is concerned with Hobbes' political philosophy and his views on figurative language, interest in literary theory and particularly his allegory. A special feature is the chapter on engraved title pages in Leviathan and other texts of the era. |