Erasmus among the Dialecticians: Copia and Its Discontents: 2022 Erasmus Birthday Lecture
Erasmus’ sceptical attitude towards the discipline of dialectic in his early writings is well known. In this article, I revisit Erasmus’ relationship with the arts of reasoning, tracing a trajectory from The Praise of Folly and De Copia to his final work, Ecclesiastes. Erasmus’ treatise on preaching...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Brill
2023
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Erasmus studies
Jahr: 2023, Band: 43, Heft: 1, Seiten: 5-27 |
| RelBib Classification: | FA Theologie KAG Kirchengeschichte 1500-1648; Reformation; Humanismus; Renaissance RE Homiletik VA Philosophie |
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Homiletics
B Definition B Rhetoric B copia B Dialectic |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Erasmus’ sceptical attitude towards the discipline of dialectic in his early writings is well known. In this article, I revisit Erasmus’ relationship with the arts of reasoning, tracing a trajectory from The Praise of Folly and De Copia to his final work, Ecclesiastes. Erasmus’ treatise on preaching, I suggest, develops a new approach to copious speech and writing by combining the resources of rhetoric and dialectic, in dialogue with the textbooks on the arts of discourse that had appeared in the 25 years since the composition of The Praise of Folly. |
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| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Erasmus studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18749275-04301001 |