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Item Open Access Chaïm Perelman’s “First Philosophies and Regressive Philosophy”: Commentary and Translation(Penn State University Press, 2003) Frank, David A.; Bolduc, Michelle K.; Perelman, ChaimItem Open Access FROM VITA CONTEMPLATIVA TO VITA ACTIVA: CHAÏM PERELMAN AND LUCIE OLBRECHTS-TYTECA'S RHETORICAL TURN(American Society for the History of Rhetoric, 2004) Frank, David A.; Bolduc, Michelle K.Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's Traité de l'argumentation: la nouvelle rhétorique marked a revolution in twentieth-century rhetorical theory. In this essay, we trace Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca‟s turn from logical positivism and the accepted belief that reason‟s domain was the vita contemplativa to rhetoric and its use as a reason designed for the vita activa. Our effort to tell the story of their rhetorical turn, which took place between 1944 and 1950, is informed by an account of the context in which they considered questions of reason, responsibility, and action in the wake of World War II.Item Open Access An Introduction to and Translation of Chaïm Perelman’s 1933 De l’arbitraire dans la connaissance [On the Arbitrary in Knowledge](Advances in the History of Rhetoric, 2019) Bolduc, Michelle K.This is an introduction to and translation of Chaïm Perelman’s “De l’arbitraire dans la connaissance” published in 1933 by Maurice Lambertin publishing house. De l’arbitraire dans la connaissance has important implications for an understanding of Perelman’s intellectual development generally and specifically for an understanding the evolution of his New Rhetoric Project