J.L. VIVES : : de ratione dicendi.

• Author: WALKER, DAVID J.
• TeilnehmendeR: Walker, David (Translator of works on philosophy),
• Place / Publishing House: [S.l.] : : BRILL,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Selected Works of Juan Luis Vives 11.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (499 pages).

Juan Luis Vives’ 1533 treatise on rhetoric, De ratione dicendi , is a highly original but largely neglected Renaissance Latin text. David Walker’s critical edition, with introduction, facing translation and notes, is the first to appear in English. The conception of rhetoric which Vives elaborates in the De ratione dicendi differs significantly from that which is found in other rhetorical treatises written during the humanist Renaissance. Rhetoric as Vives conceives it is part of the discipline of self-knowledge, and involves a distinct way of thinking about the way kinds of rhetorical style manifested modes of human life. Moving as it did from the concrete particulars of a man’s style to their abstractable implications, the study of rhetoric was for him a form of moral thinking which enabled the student to develop a critical framework for understanding the world he lived inches.

Table of Contents

Juan Luis Vives -- Plato and Isocrates -- The Ciceronian model -- Vives' rhetorical work -- The De ratione dicendi -- Summation -- The present edition -- The English translation -- Bibliography -- Sigla -- Text and translation -- Appendix: Juan Luis Vives, De causis corruptarum artium, Book IV, De corrupta rhetorica -- Index Locorum -- Index Nominum.