This book contains 20 essays tracing the work of David Zarefsky,
a leading North American scholar of argumentation from a rhetorical
perspective.The essays cohere around 4 general themes: objectives
for studying argumentation rhetorically, approaches to rhetorical
study of argumentation, patterns and schemes of rhetorical
argumentation, and case studies illustrating the potential of
studying argumentation rhetorically.These articles are drawn from
across Zarefsky's 45-year career. Many of these articles originally
appeared in publications that are difficult to access today, and
this collection brings the reader up to date on the topic.
Zarefsky's scholarship focuses on the role of language in
political argumentation, the ways in which argumentation creates
public knowledge and belief, the influence of framing and context
on what is said and understood, the deployment of particular
patterns and schemes of argumentation in public reasoning, and the
influence of debate on politics and governance. All these topics
are addressed in this book.
Each of the conceptual essays includes brief application to
specific cases, and five extended case studies are also presented
in this volume. The case studies cover different themes: two
explore famous political debates, the third focuses on presidential
rhetoric across the course of United States history, the fourth on
the arguments for liberalism at a time of political polarization,
and the fifth on the contemporary effort to engage the United
States with the Muslim world.
This bookis ofinterest to scholars in the fields of philosophy,
logic, law, philosophy of law, and legal history. The range of
topics and concepts addressed, the interplay of concepts and cases
and the unifying perspective of rhetorical argumentation make this
book a valuable read for students of argumentative practice,
whether rhetorically or otherwise."
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