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