HISTORY OF CLASSICAL RHETORIC
cod. 1000618

Academic year 2008/09
3° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Storia della filosofia antica (M-FIL/07)
Field
Discipline filosofiche
Type of training activity
Characterising
40 hours
of face-to-face activities
5 credits
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course unit
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Learning objectives

<p>Knowledge of rhetorical theory and of history of classical rhetoric.</p>
<p>Building a critical approach to some of the key texts.</p>

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

<p><em>Ancient rhetoric and its different facets</em></p>
<p>Rhetoric as art of persuasion, as a technique to manage and handle words, as a literary language practice, as a testing ground for the effects of language. Is it an "antiphilosophy"? Or philosophy's fellow traveller?</p>
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Full programme

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Bibliography

<p>A Bibliography will be available by the end of the course.</p>

Teaching methods

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Assessment methods and criteria

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Other information

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