Carlo Michelstaedter’s Persuasion and Rhetoric (1910) is one of the best examples of what Massimo Cacciari calls the early twentieth century “metaphysics of youth.” Persuasion and Rhetoric is the result of Michelstaedter’s academic investigation on the concepts of “persuasion” and “rhetoric” in Plato and Aristotle. Michelstaedter saw in Plato’s corpus the gradual abandonment of Parmenidean “bei...

This article addresses the problem of the ‘inscription’ of religious meaning within the poetic descriptions of the material world and existential experience; it analyses this problem with reference to the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins. The article begins with a brief review of Hopkins’ poetic goals, and then turns to the interrelations between the thematic and rhetorical concerns in his writi...

Many lawyers lack a basic understanding of the structure and process of legal argumentation. Their limited understanding, which often leads to less than effective advocacy, stems from legal education's failure to make the structure and process of legal argument explicit and systematic. One approach to this problem is to explore the intrinsic relationship of law to rhetoric. Because law and rhet...

Purpose – To contribute to the mapping of the social media discourse involving politicians and their followers during election campaigns, we examined Israeli politicians’ Aristotelian rhetoric on Facebook and its reception during the 2013 election campaign. D ow nl oa de d by U N IV E R SI T Y O F H A IF A A t 0 0: 49 3 0 M ar ch 2 01 5 (P T ) Design/methodology/approach – We examined the Arist...

It is important for students to engage in adequate deliberate practice in order to develop programming expertise. However, students often encounter anxiety when they begin to learn. This can present a challenge to educators because such anxiety can influence practice behaviour. This thesis situates this challenge within the ControlValue Theory of Achievement Emotions, emphasising a need for dom...

This article examines the rise of the discourse on lifelong learning across Europe and the variety of national policy trends which its rhetoric occludes. The ubiquitous presence of this meta-discourse in education and training policy-in-theory is seen as a singular event which can be ascribed to the impact of the variety of global forces on the education arena. It serves specific political func...

dating- in- verse is a rhetorical art which-according to the most reliable documents- appeared during the period of decline in arabic literature, although some authors believed that pre-islamic poets also wrote some kinds of it. dating-in-verse is the versification of a date written by use of abjd alphabetical order ,in which each letter marks or equals a number, e.g. a=1, b=2 , j=3 etc. to ver...

A traditional approach to contrastive rhetoric has emphasized cultural difference in rhetorical patterns among various languages. Despite its laudable pedagogical intentions to raise teachers’ and students’ cultural and rhetorical awareness in second language writing, traditional contrastive rhetoric has perpetuated static binaries between English and other languages and viewed students as cult...