anyone into rhetorical theory? What are the best books on rhetoric?

anyone into rhetorical theory? What are the best books on rhetoric?

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  1. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    aristotle, rhetoric

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      I’ve read this and it’s 2000 years old… I don’t want something written by primitives.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        OP didn't as for queer theory, plato nerd

        [...]
        Marcus Fabius Quintilian, Institutes of Oratory.
        Constantine VII, Imperial Administration.
        remainder of semester should be spent studying composition in Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams.

        supplementum ad nauseum:
        Michel Montaigne, Joseph Addison, Douglas William Jerrold

        oh i see, you want to learn rhetoric but you want to remain as a snorting dooling pleb minus 99% of your human logic and human speech, gotcha yeah hm, not sure what to reccoooomend in that case? Maybe Katie Perry.

        uh huh ... and ... why is that?

        if you want to learn how to think and reason properly you can't possibly think you can, like, become a professional sportsman and stay as a fat boy laying on the couch. Your entire life has to change. If you think "thinking logically" is 'autism' then you've got no fricking chance.

        read again; shut your mouth, do as i say if you want to go somewhere with this topic: [...]

        Samegay

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          ... that's kind of scary how hard some of you aristotle coons believe 'rhetoric' is out to get you by a big conspiracy.

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            I thought it was Playdough that hated rhetoric?

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            doesnt really matter what plato hated, people point to aristotle or plato like they point to the bible; there's really nothing there to be learned and they don't know anything about it themselves...

            ..whilst 'socratic philosophy' is very much different to rhetoric in its origin and timeline. there's some overlap but... rhetoric develops into formal proof-based science, whereas philosophy develops into formal fantasy-based religion. that's probably the easiest way to describe it.

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            I guess but rhetoric without grounding in actual meaning is just empty platitudes

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            this is true, that's why rhetoric develops and relies on a proof-basis and the speaker being able to articulate a complex case; which is why I say Quintilian is the first place to go.

            Chrysippus of Soli developed the 'scientific method' of proofs which became stoicism, blurring with 'philosophy', really that's almost all you need to realize that in order to convince other people you have actually be right about what your saying in order to be able to demonstrate the truth of it. Stoicism is still useful, the authors of it like Rufus, in that they're against peer pressure and things like that which is what 'bad rhetoric' as opposed to 'good rhetoric' relies on. But bad rhetoric is inactionable since a speaker appealing to the mob can only copy what the mob wants to do and cannot convince them to do anything requiring effort, whereas logical speech may not convince 100 useless people but it will convince 10 useful people who are far more valuable than the 100 useless people.

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            Plato's entire corpus is a work of deathless rhetoric, they are together a still breathing orator.

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            >muh platootoods

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            This guy is a Heraclitus fan for sure

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            Wittgenstein was the takeaway i got, but ok

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            he hated sophists. who tend to use rhetoric.

            that is to say, he hated rhetoric that is used to polish up a bad argument. Not rhetoric itself.

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            >he hated sophists
            philo+soph

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          OP is just a moron, tht's all. I think he's looking for things like ... "power of subtle suggestion and peer pressure" to get people to maybe do what he wants in a 50 yr time span; like women think, whereas I made the mistake of thinking he was asking for how to demonstrate factual cases and refute people with ideas and have people do what he wants in a 3 minute timespan instead.

          uh let's try again,

          https://i.imgur.com/UbOZ3ur.jpg

          anyone into rhetorical theory? What are the best books on rhetoric?

          try NLP i guess - anything with a foreword by katy perry, and maybe study how hillary clinton speaks.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      OP didn't as for queer theory, plato nerd

      https://i.imgur.com/UbOZ3ur.jpg

      anyone into rhetorical theory? What are the best books on rhetoric?

      Marcus Fabius Quintilian, Institutes of Oratory.
      Constantine VII, Imperial Administration.
      remainder of semester should be spent studying composition in Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams.

      supplementum ad nauseum:
      Michel Montaigne, Joseph Addison, Douglas William Jerrold

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        AUTISM ALERT
        BEEP BEEP BEEP

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          oh i see, you want to learn rhetoric but you want to remain as a snorting dooling pleb minus 99% of your human logic and human speech, gotcha yeah hm, not sure what to reccoooomend in that case? Maybe Katie Perry.

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            AUTISM ALERT
            BEEP BEEP BEEP

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            uh huh ... and ... why is that?

            if you want to learn how to think and reason properly you can't possibly think you can, like, become a professional sportsman and stay as a fat boy laying on the couch. Your entire life has to change. If you think "thinking logically" is 'autism' then you've got no fricking chance.

            read again; shut your mouth, do as i say if you want to go somewhere with this topic:

            OP didn't as for queer theory, plato nerd

            [...]
            Marcus Fabius Quintilian, Institutes of Oratory.
            Constantine VII, Imperial Administration.
            remainder of semester should be spent studying composition in Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams.

            supplementum ad nauseum:
            Michel Montaigne, Joseph Addison, Douglas William Jerrold

  2. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Probably the book Ancient Rhetoric, from there Richard Weaver and Kenneth Burke are your best bets

  3. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    best internet resource is this guy specializing in rhetoric, tibfulv, give him a google, very helpful

  4. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    My thread has been ruined by schizo posters.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      Hug your plushy, sweetie, the storm will pass.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      >21 replies
      >6 posters
      Well, yea. I guess one schizo counts as many. I have aristotles rethoric but i basically never read it since i think it's redundant now (not aristotle, but rethoric in general would be a redundant read)

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        why would it be redundant?

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          Because i no longer need it

          And don't correct my english as i have no respect for this ugly ass language. Rhetoric, that just looks moronic. Ugly language for ugly inbred morons

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            lawl

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            then go away and don't speak english, believe me we're indundated with third worlders from greece telling us popular information from30 yrs ago about plato.

            My thread has been ruined by schizo posters.

            >My thread
            well frogurt,

            https://i.imgur.com/UbOZ3ur.jpg

            anyone into rhetorical theory? What are the best books on rhetoric?

            what the frick do you mean by 'rhetoric'? you've had the best answers and the worst answers, if these didn't illuminate you HMM perhaps you've confused rhetoric with being something else entirely, like cheese?

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        why do you constantly misspell it as 'rethoric'? do you have a learning disability?

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        >rethoric
        >rethoric

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        >muh aristotle muh aristotle is the best
        >yeh havent read aristotle actually
        >(misspells subject word repeatedly)
        automatic handguns were invented to crack the frontal cortex of people like you, dysgen.

  5. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Interested in this topic as well. I read Latour's "Science in Action" and it's interesting how he ties rhetoric into the social construction of science. He cited specifically "The New Rhetoric", by Perelman and Brechts-Tyteca.
    I guess a good primer would be "Classical Rhetoric for the modern student", even if it's dry and academic. Obviously Aristotle and Cicero's works are very important from an historical perspective, but I guess it depends on your goals.

    The best resource I found is actually the reading list from (yes, I know) r/rhetoric. There is also a chart on the IQfy wiki, but it is unfinished.

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