What is Rhetoric?

Michel Meyer is Perelman Professor of Rhetoric and Argumentation at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, having previously taught at Berkeley, McGill University, the Sorbonne, and the Collège de France. He is the chief editor of the Revue Internationale de Philosophie and editor of the book series L'Interrogation Philosophique at the Presses Universitaires de France. His publications in English include Of Problematology (University of Chicago Press, 1995), and Philosophy and the Passions (Penn State University Press, 1999). He is the co-editor, with Jaś Elsner, of Art and Rhetoric in Roman Culture (CUP, 2014). He is the founder of a philosophy called problematology, based on the priority of questioning in thought. The main works of this radical new foundation of thought have been translated into a dozen languages.

Introduction
1: The basic features of the history of rhetoric
2: The question-view of logos
3: Rhetoric and argumentation: the unity of the field
4: The common operators in figures and arguments
5: The argumentative structures
6: The elements of rhetoric istricto sensu: the figures of speech
7: The foundations of literary rhetoric
8: The rhetoric of the arts
9: The role of ethos: the voice of values
10: The role of pathos: from argumentative responses to feelings and emotions
11: The negotiation of distance or the embodiment of the interpersonal
Conclusion
Glossary