Logic and rhetoric in England, 1500-1700 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Howell, Wilbur Samuel, 1904-
Other Authors: Ramus, Petrus, 1515-1572
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Russell & Russell, [1961, ©1956]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • ch. 1. Introduction
  • ch. 2. Scholastic logic: Thomas Wilson's Rule of reason ; Backgrounds of scholasticism ; Witcraft
  • ch. 3. Traditional rhetoric: the three patterns: Origin and boundaries ; The five great arts ; The rhetoric of style ; Models for imitation
  • ch. 4. The English Ramists: Ramus's reform of dialectic and rhetoric ; Ramus's dialectic in England ; Ramus's rhetoric in England
  • ch. 5. Counterreform: systematics and neo-Ciceronians: Middle ground between contradictions ; The reappearance of the three patterns
  • ch. 6. New horizons in logic and rhetoric: Descartes and the port-royalists ; Bacon, Lamy, Hobbes, and Glanvill.