Digital Quadrivium Project by Raul Corazzon: four websites
Theory and History of Rhetoric (www.historyofrhetoric.com)
by Raul Corazzon | e-mail: rc@ontology.co
Digital Quadrivium Project by Raul Corazzon: four websites
Rhetorica: Theory and History of Rhetoric
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This website is devoted to the historical development of rhetoric, that according to Aristotle is a counterpart (antistrophos) of dialectic (Rhetorica I. 1.1) and "a sort of offshoot of dialectic and of work in ethics, which it is right to call politics" (Rhetorica I. 1356a25-26) and according to Heidegger "a first part of logic rightly understood" (Martin Heidegger, "History of the Concept of Time: Prolegomena", Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1985, p. 264).
I will begin with some bibliographies, that are the foundation of every research:
Theory of rhetoric: Argumentation theory; rhetoric and philosophy; Critical thinking; Feminist rhetoric; Bibliographies of dictionaries and encyclopedias of rhetoric.
History of rhetoric:
Greek: General histories of rhetoric; Early rhetorical theory; Protagoras and Gorgias; Isocrates; Plato (Gorgias and Phaedrus); Aristotle (Rhetoric, Poetics, Topics and Sophistical refutations); Rhetoric to Alexander; Attic Orators: Lysias, Demostenes, Aeschines, Hellenistic rhetoric, Theophrastus, Later Peripatetics, Demetrius, On Style; the Stoics; other philosophical Schools; Hermagoras and Stasis Theory: Asianism; Atticism.
Roman: Early Roman rhetoric; Cato the Elder: Roman Orators; Cicero; Rhetoric in Augustan Rome; Second Sophistic; Christian rhetoric
Medieval: Augustine of Hippo; Ars poetriae; Ars dictaminis; Ars predicandi
Renaissance: Classical Rhetoric in Italy; Lorenzao Valla, Juan Luis Vives; Rudolph Agricola; Erasmus of Rotterdam, Philip Melanchthon; Petrus Ramus, Bartholomäus Keckermann.
Modern: Giambattista Vico, George Campbell; Joseph Priestly; Bernard Lamy; François Fénélon; Adam Smith; Hugh Blair.
Intercultural rhetoric: Overviews; Methodologies; African; African-Americans; Pre-Columbian America; Ancient Egyptian; Jewish; Arabic; Syriac; Celtic; Near Eastern; Asian; Chinese; Japanese.
Vocalulary of rhetoric: key terms of rhetoric: enthymeme, epideictic, ethos, logos, pathos, pisteis.
Currently this site is in an early stage of development: only few sections are available; if you are interested, please be patient: in the next future I will add more pages.
The four websites of this project contain many annotated bibliographic references (the number of pages is referred to the PDF version):
"Theory and History of Ontology": 16800 (9150 pages)
"History of Logic from Aristotle to Gödel": 4400 (2934 pages)
"Theory and History of Rhetoric": 1360 (756 pages)
"Bibliographia. Annotated bibliographies": 3056 (2335 pages)
Thousands of new references are in preparation.