Frank, David A.

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    ARGUMENTATION STUDIES IN THE WAKE OF THE NEW RHETORIC
    (American Forensic Association, 2004) Frank, David A.
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    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.
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    The Jewish Countermodel: Talmudic Argumentation, the New Rhetoric Project, and the Classical Tradition of Rhetoric
    (The Religious Communication Association, 2003) Frank, David A.
    Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts- Tyteca's New Rhetoric Project (NRP) helped revive the study of rhetoric in the twentieth century. Although some believe their work is largely a reiteration of Aristotle's rhetoric and that Perelman owes a significant debt to Aristotle, I present evidence in this paper that Perelman was quite critical of the Western tradition of philosophy and of Aristotle's logic and rhetoric. Perelman turned to Jewish thinking and Talmudic argumentation as a countermodel. Jewish metaphysics, ontology, epistemology, and argument are the central touchstones of the NRP.