Rhetoric and Philosophy in Hobbes' Leviathan

by Raia Prokhovnik

Book Overview

Originally published in 1991. This book explicitly examines rhetoric as the art of persuasion in the practical world, and as in the expression of thinking in the language a speaker uses. It presents Leviathan in terms of the philosophical character of the work considered through Hobbes' use of language to express and organise his thought. Throughout, the nature of the relationship between rhetoric and philosophy is discussed and the problems...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367331055
• ISBN13: 9780367331054
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"