The New Rhetoric and the Humanities: Essays on Rhetoric and its Applications

1. The New Rhetoric: a Theory of Practical Reasoning.- 2. Rhetoric and Philosophy.- 3. Philosophy, Rhetoric, Commonplaces.- 4. The Philosophy of Pluralism and the New Rhetoric.- 5. Dialectic and Dialogue.- 6. Rhetorical Perspectives on Semantic Problems.- 7. Analogy and Metaphor in Science, Poetry and Philosophy.- 8. Scientific Methodology and Open Philosophy.- 9. Behaviorism's Enlightened Despotism.- 10. Disagreement and Rationality.- 11. The Rational and the Reasonable.- 12. Reflections on Practical Reason.- 13. The Role of the Model in Education.- 14. Authority, Ideology and Violence.- 15. Meaning and Categories in History.- 16. Classicism and Romanticism in Argumentation.