Contents: Introduction; Part 1 Rhetoric as Inquiry: The pertinence of rhetorical theory and practice for current Vichian scholarship; Topics in history; Subtilitas applicandi in rhetorical hermeneutics: Pierce's gloss and Kelly's example; Dilthey's Hobbes and Cicero's rhetoric; Political rhetoric and rhetorical politics in Juan Luis Vives (1492-1540); Alltäglichkeit, timefullness in the Heideggerian program; Historical priorities. Part 2 The Rhetoric of Genres: Lorenzo Valla: humanist rhetoric and the critique of the classical languages of morality; Fables of power; Proverbial signs: formal strategies in Guicciardini's Ricordi; Pasquier's Recherches de la France: the exemplarity of his medieval sources; Shakespeare and rhetoric; The conversable world: 18th-century transformations of the relation of rhetoric and truth; Ethos and pathos in Ruskin's rhetoric; Florence and his aesthetic politics; Rhetoric: time, memory, memoir. Part 3 Rhetoric and the Disciplines: Petrarch's Invective contra medicum: an early confrontation of rhetoric and medicine; Rhetoric and medicine in Descartes' Passions de l'âme: the issue of intervention; Lionardo di Capoa's Parere (1681): a legal opinion on the use of Aristotle in medicine; Hobbes and Vico on law: a rhetorical gloss; Index.
Nancy S. Struever is Professor Emerita in the Humanities Center, The Johns Hopkins University, USA
’For a resource on the application of rhetoric as a mode of historical inquiry, this collection offers a plethora of case studies.’ Metapsychology
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