This introductory book on George Campbell discusses details of his life and his intellectual milieu, including his role in the Scottish Enlightenment in Aberdeen. In addition, Arthur E. Walzer provides a thorough examination of Campbell's Philosophy of Rhetoric, the most important work in rhetorical theory of the Enlightenment. Brief analyses of Campbell's Dissertation on Miracles and Lectures on Pulpit Eloquence are also given.
Arthur E. Walzer is Associate Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. He is the coeditor (with Alan G. Gross) of Rereading Aristotle's Rhetoric.