Philip Melanchthon: The Dialectical Questions

Erotemata Dialectices
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46637-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 550 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1055 g

Reihe: International Studies in the History of Rhetoric

The Dialectical Questions offers an English translation of the Erotemata Dialectices, the final and fullest textbook on the art of argumentation written by the reformer and educational innovator Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560). Representing an era when rhetoric and dialectic were seen as interdependent, companion arts, Melanchthon’s textbook was widely used in Protestant Latin schools and universities during the Reformation. The translation tracks revisions to the text across its lifetime editions (1547-1560) and traces its classical sources. The introduction chronicles the personal and political upheavals that Melanchthon experienced during its composition, and provides an overview of its rich and complex content. It then focuses on the unique feature that sets this work apart from other early modern dialectics: its many sample arguments drawn from medicine and natural philosophy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fahnestock, Jeanne

Weitere Mitwirkende

Fahnestock, Jeanne

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Dialectic in Melanchthon’s Context

2 Melanchthon’s Life-Long Dialectical Project

3 Comparing Melanchthon’s Textbooks on Dialectic, 1520–1555

4 The Content of the Erotemata Dialectices: Expanding the Art

5 The Audiences for the Erotemata Dialectices

6 Applying the Art of Dialectic: The Examples

7 Sixteenth-Century Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Medicine in the Erotemata Dialectices

8 The Importance of the Erotemata Dialectices

Comments on the Translation

1 Features of the Translation

Translation

Book I

Book II

Book III

Book IV

Works Cited

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jeanne Fahnestock, Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland, is the author of Rhetorical Style (2011), Rhetorical Figures in Science (1999/2002), and co-author of A Rhetoric of Argument (3rd edition, 2004). She is a Fellow of the Rhetoric Society of America and a Distinguished Scholar of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation.