Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction: The Case for Rhetorical Argumentation
1. Models of Argumentation 2. Product, Procedure, and Process 3. Habermas's Challenge 4. The Case for the Rhetorical 5. Origins in the Rhetoric 6. Rhetorical Argument: Enthymeme 7. Rhetorical Argumentation 8. Contemporary Views 9. Outline of the Study
Chapter 1. Argument as Product: The Logical Perspective
1.1 Formal Logic and the Classical Root 1.2 The Toulmin Transition 1.3 Informal Logic 1.4 Problems of the Product-oriented Perspective 1.5 Rhetoric and Logic
Chapter 2. Argumentation as Dialectical
2.1 Outline of the Pragma-Dialectical Approach 2.2 Misunderstandings and Qualifications 2.3 Pragma-Dialectics and Fallacies 2.4 Walton's Functional Account 2.5 A Critical Evaluation 2.6 Rhetorical Elements: Audiences, Readers, and Third Parties
Chapter 3. Contexts and Argument: An Introduction to the Rhetorical Perspective
3.1 The New Rhetoric 3.2 Emotion and Argumentation 3.3 Context 3.4 Audiences 3.5 The Universal Audience
Chapter 4. Audiences and the Conditions for Adherence
4.1 Perelman's Relativism 4.2 Relevance and Cognitive Environments 4.3 Acceptability 4.4 Blair and Johnson's Community of Model Interlocutors 4.5 The Universal Audience Again 4.6 Preliminary Examples
Chapter 5. Case Studies in Rhetorical Argumentation
5.1 Case A Clear Thinking on Shell Oil, Nigeria and the Death of Ken Saro-Wiwa
A.1 Background and Locale A.2 Arguer and Audiences A.3 Mode of Expression A.4 Dialectical Obligations A.5 The Logical Structure A.6 The Reasonableness of the Argumentation
5.2 Case B Personality, Testimony, and Holocaust Denial
B.1 The Initial Text B.2 Harwood's Use of Ethotic Arguments B.3 Testimony in the Zundel Trial B.4 Ethos and the Law B.5 The Role of Ethotic Arguments
Chapter 6. Fallacy
6.1 Problems with Fallacies 6.2 Senses of "Fallacy" 6.3 Fallacy as Bad Product 6.4 Fallacy as Bad Procedure 6.5 Fallacy as Bad Process 6.6 Crosswhite's Perelmanian Account 6.7 The "Act" of Fallacy
Chapter 7. Argumentation and the Critiques of Reason
7.1 Common Concerns 7.2 Argument, Persuasion, and Critique 7.3 Femininity, Emotion, and the Body 7.4 Nye's Logics 7.5 Post critique Faces of Argument 7.6 Differences, Gestures, and the Good
Conclusion: Summation and Prolepsis
Notes
References
Index
