{"product_id":"9780809330256","title":"The Promise of Reason: Studies in The New Rhetoric","description":"\u003cp\u003eNo single work is more responsible for the heightened interest in argumentation and informal reasoning—and their relation to ethics and jurisprudence in the late twentieth century—than Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca’s monumental study of argumentation, \u003ci\u003eLa Nouvelle Rhétorique: Traité de l'Argumentation\u003c\/i\u003e. Published in 1958 and translated into English as \u003ci\u003eThe New Rhetoric\u003c\/i\u003e in 1969, this influential volume returned the study of reason to classical concepts of rhetoric. In The Promise of Reason: Studies in The New Rhetoric, leading scholars of rhetoric Barbara Warnick, Jeanne Fahnestock, Alan G. Gross, Ray D. Dearin, and James Crosswhite are joined by prominent and emerging European and American scholars from different disciplines to demonstrate the broad scope and continued relevance of \u003ci\u003eThe New Rhetoric\u003c\/i\u003e more than fifty years after its initial publication. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDivided into four sections—Conceptual Understandings of The New Rhetoric, Extensions of \u003ci\u003eThe New Rhetoric\u003c\/i\u003e, The Ethical Turn in Perelman and \u003ci\u003eThe New Rhetoric\u003c\/i\u003e, and Uses of \u003ci\u003eThe New Rhetoric\u003c\/i\u003e—this insightful volume covers a wide variety of topics. It includes general assessments of \u003ci\u003eThe New Rhetoric\u003c\/i\u003e and its central concepts, as well as applications of those concepts to innovative areas in which argumentation is being studied, such as scientific reasoning, visual media, and literary texts. Additional essays compare Perelman’s ideas with those of other significant thinkers like Kenneth Burke and Richard McKeon, explore his career as a philosopher and activist, and shed new light on Perelman and Olbrechts- Tyteca’s collaboration. Two contributions present new scholarship based on recent access to letters, interviews, and archival materials housed in the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Among the volume’s unique gifts is a personal memoir from Perelman’s daughter, Noémi Perelman Mattis, published here for the first time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Promise of Reason\u003c\/i\u003e, expertly compiled and edited by John T. Gage, is the first to investigate the pedagogical implications of Perelman and Olbrechts- Tyteca’s groundbreaking work and will lead the way to the next generation of argumentation studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Southern Illinois University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47020597870832,"sku":"9780809330256","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780809330256_p0.jpg?v=1763740795","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780809330256","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}