{"product_id":"9780809329021","title":"The Rhetorics of Thomas Hobbes and Bernard Lamy","description":"\u003cp\u003eMakes accessible to modern readers the 17th-century rhetorics of Thomas Hob­bes (1588–1677) and Bernard Lamy (1640–1715)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHobbes’ \u003ci\u003eA Briefe of the Art \u003c\/i\u003eof \u003ci\u003eRhet­orique, \u003c\/i\u003ethe first English translation of Aristotle’s rhetoric, reflects Hobbes’ sense of rhetoric as a central instrument of self-defense in an increasingly frac­tious Commonwealth. In its approach to rhetoric, which Hobbes defines as “that Faculty by which wee understand what will serve our turne, concerning any subject, to winne beliefe in the hearer,” the \u003ci\u003eBriefe \u003c\/i\u003elooks forward to Hobbes’ great political works \u003ci\u003eDe Cive \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLeviathan.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished anonymously in France as \u003ci\u003eDe l’art de parler, \u003c\/i\u003eLamy’s rhetoric was translated immediately into English as \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Speaking. \u003c\/i\u003eLamy’s long associa­tion with the Port Royalists made his works especially attractive to English readers because Port Royalists were en­gaged in a vicious quarrel with the Jesuits during the last half of the 17th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Southern Illinois University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47007741673712,"sku":"9780809329021","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780809329021_p0.jpg?v=1763728370","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780809329021","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}