Grundriß der Rhetorik

Abstract

Der wahre Redner ist, im Sinne Quintilians, in erster Linie immer Piidagoge: Aus Griinden der Erziehung, und nicht urn des sophistischen Blendungsspiels willen, hat Lessing so sehr die witzigen A pori en geschiitzt-sie dienten seinem Appell, das Gegebene nicht als Fatalitiit aufzufassen, sondern immer auch das Gegenteil zu bedenken, sich auszumalen, die Welt ware anders als jetzt, das Potentielle sei praktikabel und die Dinge stiinden plotzlich auf dem Kopf.

Argumentation in Germany and Austria: An Overview of the Recent Literature

“…Moreover, Jens has written many important contributions to the study of political rhetoric and the history of rhetoric (see the collection in Jens 1983). Together with B. Steinbrink, G. Ueding has written an introduction to rhetoric based on the classical tradition, including a short survey of the history of rhetoric from antiquity to the 20th century (Ueding and Steinbrink 1986). G. Kalivoda, who is also editing the Historisches Worterbuch der Rhetorik at the Institute of General Rhetoric in Tiibingen, is the author of a book on structures and processes of political argumentation (Kalivoda 1986).…”

Rhetoric and Dutch Translation Theory (1750-1820)1

“…Observations in this article on the relationship between rhetoric and literary theory are mainly based on Dockhorn (1968), France (1972), Howell (1971), Müller (1981), Munteano (1957), Schanze (1974), Stone (1967), Ueding and Steinbrink (1986). Although these works concentrate on England, France or Germany, the basic ideas seem to apply to the situation in The Netherlands too.…”