Matthew Sharpe teaches philosophy at Deakin, and receives ARC moneys to study the history of philosophy and its practices. Thanks here go to Mr NS and Dr WA. A concerned friend recently told me of an ...

When people use the term “rhetoric” these days, they usually mean empty language — be it high-flown or spoken in high dudgeon. A few may think of rhetoric as a deadly classical discipline devoted to ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/philrhet.53.1.0075 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/philrhet.53.1.0075 Copy URL ABSTRACT This essay throws genealogical light upon ...

Since its inception in Ancient Greece, the academic discipline of rhetoric—not to be confused with the knack of sophistry or what often is labeled “mere rhetoric”—has focused on the art of symbolic ...

Among Shakespeare’s ‘Roman’ plays, Julius Caesar is arguably the most Roman in both substance and form: not only is the title character Rome’s premier imperialist – the very language breathes a ...

In this entertaining work of scholarship, Sam Leith revives the powerful discipline of classical rhetoric, newly fashionable after Obama's rousing parallels, alliterations and apostrophes (the last ...