The Search for Meaning: Where Ancient Rhetoric Meets Hermeneutics

Описание: Ancient Rhetorics did not only teach the art of persuasion and giving a speech – it was also deeply connected to understanding and interpretation. In this video, we explore the connection between the ancient art of Rhetorics and hermeneutics, the art of understanding by example of a few rhetoricians discussed in an essay by Kathy Eden.
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P.S. Please excuse the few spelling mistakes on the slides for the quotes

Work cited:
Kathy Eden, Hermeneutics and the Ancient Rhetorical Tradition, Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric , Vol. 5, No. 1 (Winter 1987), pp. 59-86.

Further reading on the topic:
Manfred Fuhrmann, Die antike Rhetorik, München 1984.
George L. Pullmann, Rhetoric and Hermeneutics: Composition, Invention, and Literature, Journal of Advanced Composition , Fall 1994, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Fall 1994), pp. 367-387.
Rhetoric and Hermeneutics in Our Time, ed. by Walter Jost and Michael J. Hyde, New Haven/London 1997.

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I am Laura, a PhD student of Comparative Literature in Germany researching hermeneutics and aesthetics. I make videos on Gothic Literature, the origins of modern fantasy and sci-fi stories and literary theory.


Video chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:30 Schleiermacher on Rhetorics and Hermeneutics
1:54 Two sides of a coin
3:52 The Sophists
6:14 Plato
8:02 Aristotle
11:11 Cicero
11:57 Quintillian
12:37 Eden's paper
12:50 Isocrates' Panathenaicus
17:11 Plato's dialogues
23:38 Aristotle Rhetorics and Poetics
28:42 Cicero's De Oratore and De Inventione
31:37 Quintillian's Institutio Oratoria
35:31 Eden's conclusion
36:24 My conclusion

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