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Author Stroud, Scott R., author.

Title Kant and the promise of rhetoric / Scott R. Stroud.

Publication Info. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (x, 274 pages)
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Summary "Examines Immanuel Kant's understanding of rhetoric. Argues that the general thesis that Kant disparaged rhetoric is untenable, and that communicative practices play an important role in his account of how we become better humans and create morally cultivating communities"--Provided by publisher.
Contents Tracing the sources of Kant's apparent animosity to rhetoric -- Kant on beauty, art, and rhetoric -- Freedom, coercion, and the search for the ideal community -- Pedagogical educative rhetoric : education, rhetoric, and the use of example -- Religious educative rhetoric : religion and ritual as rhetorical means of moral cultivation -- Critical educative rhetoric : Kant and the demands of critical communication.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-270) and index.
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Subject Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804 -- Knowledge and learning -- Rhetoric.
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.
Rhetoric.
Rhetoric -- Philosophy.
Rhetoric -- Philosophy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Stroud, Scott R. Kant and the promise of rhetoric 9780271064192 (DLC) 2014013091 (OCoLC)880500083
ISBN 9780271061115 (electronic book)
0271061111 (electronic book)
9780271064192 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0271064196