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In contemporary American scholarship, interpretation of Aristotle'sRhetoric has become the locus of sustained and sharp controversy. Differing views of theRhetoric and its significance have become tokens in a more general dispute about what rhetoric is or ought to be. This essay examines three central issues that have emerged in this larger arena of controversy: the relationship between Aristotelian and Platonic conceptions of rhetoric, the relationships among rhetoric, ethics, and epistemology in Aristotle, and the placement of rhetoric within Aristotle's system of arts and sciences.
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Leff, M. The uses of Aristotle's Rhetoric in contemporary American scholarship. Argumentation 7, 313–327 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00710815
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00710815