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Paperback. Condition: New. This book reveals a tradition of thought overlooked in our intellectual history but enormously influential even now: the tradition of odious praise. Distinct from more conventional rhetorical exercises, such as panegyric or the funeral oration, odious praise uses acclaim to censure or to critique. This book reassesses the genre of praise-and-blame rhetoric by considering the potential of odious praise to undermine consensus and to challenge a society's normative values.Surveying literature from ancient Greece to Renaissance Europe, Eric MacPhail identifies a tradition of epideictic rhetoric that began with the sophists but was cultivated and employed most vigorously by Renaissance political thinkers. Presenting examples from the writings of Lorenzo Valla, Niccolò Machiavelli, Desiderius Erasmus, Michel de Montaigne, Joachim du Bellay, and Jean Bodin, among others, MacPhail shows that by inscribing a positive value to an object worthy of blame, cultural values are turned on their head. MacPhail traces the use of this technique to critique the values of the classical and scholastic traditions. Recognizing and engaging with this tradition, MacPhail argues, can reinvigorate our study of the history of social thought and reveal further the roots of modern social science.Rigorous and lucid, Odious Praise presents a rhetoric capable of suspending and thus critiquing the values of a culture, and in doing so, it uncovers the first serious attempts at social thought and the seedbed of modern social science. It will be welcomed by scholars of Renaissance literature and culture, the history of rhetoric, and political thought.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This book reveals a tradition of thought overlooked in our intellectual history but enormously influential even now: the tradition of odious praise. Distinct from more conventional rhetorical exercises, such as panegyric or the funeral oration, odious praise uses acclaim to censure or to critique. This book reassesses the genre of praise-and-blame rhetoric by considering the potential of odious praise to undermine consensus and to challenge a societys normative values.Surveying literature from ancient Greece to Renaissance Europe, Eric MacPhail identifies a tradition of epideictic rhetoric that began with the sophists but was cultivated and employed most vigorously by Renaissance political thinkers. Presenting examples from the writings of Lorenzo Valla, Niccolo Machiavelli, Desiderius Erasmus, Michel de Montaigne, Joachim du Bellay, and Jean Bodin, among others, MacPhail shows that by inscribing a positive value to an object worthy of blame, cultural values are turned on their head. MacPhail traces the use of this technique to critique the values of the classical and scholastic traditions. Recognizing and engaging with this tradition, MacPhail argues, can reinvigorate our study of the history of social thought and reveal further the roots of modern social science.Rigorous and lucid, Odious Praise presents a rhetoric capable of suspending and thus critiquing the values of a culture, and in doing so, it uncovers the first serious attempts at social thought and the seedbed of modern social science. It will be welcomed by scholars of Renaissance literature and culture, the history of rhetoric, and political thought. Reassesses the genre of epideictic rhetoric from antiquity to the Renaissance by looking at a series of texts that exploit the potential of praise to undermine consensus and to challenge the normative values of society. The authors covered range from Isocrates, Plato, and Aristotle to Erasmus, Machiavelli, and Montaigne Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: Sehr gut. 114-216 p. Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar / A good and clean copy. - Contents Special Issue: Erasmus and Renaissance Dialogue Editors Preface Abbreviations Articles Reinier Leushuis, The Paradox of Christian Epicureanism in Dialogue: Erasmus Colloquy The Epicurean Teodoro Katinis, Praising Discord: Sperone Speronis Dialogo della Discordia and Erasmus Influence Dorothea Heitsch, Debate Strategies in Early Modern Dialoguejean Bodins Colloquium Heptaplomeres in Context Selected Critical Works on Renaissance Dialogue Anniversary Brian Richardson, Optimo humanista et greco: Aldus Manutiuss Career in Venice in the Eyes of Marin Sanudo Index Contents Volume 35 (2015). Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.…

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Paperback. Condition: Sehr gut. 108 p. Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar / A good and clean copy. - Contents Editors Preface Abbreviations Lectures Wiep van Bunge, The Politics of Appropriation: Erasmus and Bayle Brian Cummings, Erasmus and the Invention of Literature Article Robert Kilpatrick, Clouds on a wall: The Mirror of Speech in the Adagiorum Chiliades and the Moriae encomium Book Reviews by Ian J. Aebel, Marie Barral-Baron, Paul Budra, David Galbraith, Greta Grace Kroeker, Robert D. Sider, William P. Weaver Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou, Conference Summary Index Lectures. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.…

Paperback. Condition: Sehr gut. 108 p. Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar / A good and clean copy. - Contents Editors Preface Abbreviations Lectures Willem Frijhoff, Erasmus Birthday Lecture, 2014: Erasmus Heritage: Priestly Doubts of the Magical Universe Paul J.Smith, Twenty-Seventh Annual Margaret Mann Phillips Lecture: Folly Goes French: The French Translations of the Praise of Folly in the 17th and 18th Centuries Article Eric MacPhail, Angelo Polizianos Preface to the Miscellaneorum Centuria Prima-. An Edition with Commentary and Translation Book Reviews by Kirk A. Essary, R. Ward Holder, Craig Kallendorf, Amy Nelson Burnett and Barbara Pitkin. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.…

Paperback. Condition: Sehr gut. 74-179 p. Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar / A good and clean copy. - Contents Special Issue: Erasmus and the Renaissance Apophthegm Editors Preface Abbreviations Articles Tineke L. Ter Meer, The Miraculous Versatility of Apophthegms Robert Kilpatrick, Fragments of a Colossus: Reflections on Erasmus Theory of the Apophthegm Anita Martins, The Philological Program of Erasmus and his Apophthegmata in the Collectanea Moralis Philosophiae of Fray Luis de Granada Bibliography Notes Federico Zuliani, Primum graecissabant: Erasmus, Julius II and the Venetians Maarten Vermeir, Erasmus and the Joyous Entry Book Reviews, by Marijke Crab, Dorothea Heitsch, Seth Lobis, Michael Randall Index Contents Volume 34 (2014). Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.…

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