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A careful analysis of the rhetorical thought of René Descartes and of a distinguished group of post-Cartesians. Covering a unique range of authors, including Bernard Lamy and Nicolas Malebranche, Carr attacks the idea, which has become commonplace in contemporary criticism, that the Cartesian system is incompatible with rhetoric.
Carr analyzes the writings of Balzac, the Port-Royalists Arnauld and Nicole, Malebranche, and Lamy, exploring the evolution of Descartes’ thought into their different theories of rhetoric. He constructs his arguments, probing each author’s writings on rhetoric, persuasion, and attention, to demonstrate the basis for rhetorical thought present in Descartes’ theory of persuasion when it is combined with his psychophysiology of attention.
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Thomas M. Carr, Jr., is Associate Professor of French at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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"I was impressed with the command, the unobtrusive command of the scholarship. The commonsense historical method employed is a relief from the esoteric silliness of much contemporary theory."—Arthur Quinn
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- PublisherSouthern Illinois University Press
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0809315572
- ISBN 13 9780809315574
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages228
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