Amid recent controversy in the media regarding alt-right groups, some say it's becoming increasingly difficult to ignore their actions and the figures that stand at the forefront, even here on ASU’s ...

Matthew Sharpe teaches philosophy at Deakin, and receives ARC moneys to study the history of philosophy and its practices. Thanks here go to Mr NS and Dr WA. A concerned friend recently told me of an ...

The ‘clash of civilisations’ is a popular theme in today’s political rhetoric, positing the idea of an unbridgeable gulf between the West and the Rest. In domestic politics, the theme is raised in ...

Bob Sullivan, professor in the Department of Literatures in English at Ithaca College, believes that young people are much ...

Since its inception in Ancient Greece, the academic discipline of rhetoric—not to be confused with the knack of sophistry or what often is labeled “mere rhetoric”—has focused on the art of symbolic ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/philrhet.53.1.0075 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/philrhet.53.1.0075 Copy URL ABSTRACT This essay throws genealogical light upon ...

When people use the term “rhetoric” these days, they usually mean empty language — be it high-flown or spoken in high dudgeon. A few may think of rhetoric as a deadly classical discipline devoted to ...

Among Shakespeare’s ‘Roman’ plays, Julius Caesar is arguably the most Roman in both substance and form: not only is the title character Rome’s premier imperialist – the very language breathes a ...