Timothy Raylor (Professor of English, Professor of English, Carleto

Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Thomas Hobbes

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Produktbeschreibung

Thomas Hobbes claimed to have founded the discipline of civil philosophy. This book offers a new reading of his intellectual development, arguing that he was dubious about the place of rhetoric in civil society and came to see it as a pernicious presence within philosophy - a position from which he did not retreat.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 165mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 698g
• ISBN-13: 9780198829690
• ISBN-10: 0198829698
• Artikelnr.: 54469372

Autorenporträt

Timothy Raylor was educated at St Peter's School in York, the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (BA Hons, English 1983), and the University of Oxford (DPhil, 1987). Raylor served as British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Research Associate on the Hartlib Papers Project at the University of Sheffield before taking up a position in the English Department of Carleton College, Minnesota, where he has taught since 1992. He has worked widely on early modern intellectual and cultural history, and is currently completing (with Stephen Clucas) an edition of Hobbes's De corpore and related manuscripts for the Clarendon Edition of the works of Thomas Hobbes. He serves on the editorial boards of Hobbes Studies, Marvell Studies, and The Seventeenth Century.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Noble Tutor
2: Civil History and Style in Thucydides
3: Poetry and Natural History in the Peak
4: Aristotle's Rhetoric in the Schoolroom
5: Logic, Rhetoric, and Philosophy
6: Discovery, Proof, and Style
7: Rhetoric and Leviathan
Conclusion
Appendix: The Authorship of The Briefe of the Art of Rhetorique
List of Manuscripts