Chaïm Perelman

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Chaïm Perelman (1912 - 1984) is regarded as the founder of the “Nouvelle Rhetoric”. Born with Warsaw, he emigrated in Belgium in 1925; he was professor with the Universit3e libre de Bruxelles until in 1978. Logical professor of , Moral and Metaphysical, its research fits at the same time in the field of the Droit, and the Rhétorique of the Argumentation.

The most famous work of Perelman is its Traité argumentation (2 vol., P.U.F., Paris, 1958), written in collaboration with Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca. Perelman joins again with rhetoric aristotelician and proposes to return its philosophical legitimacy to him while passing in addition to the judgment of Plato (which associated art to persuade with the Sophistique and the handling).

If this “new rhetoric” is essential really only starting from the Années 1970, work of Perelman counts among most innovative of the philosophical field of the time. Many researchers coming from disciplines as various as philosophy assert still today theories of the argumentation of Perelman: the philosopher Michel Meyer contrary to Perelman - which primarily focused rhetoric on the logos (speech) - replaces on the same level the pathos, the logos and the ethos within the framework of rhetoric); the linguist Christian Plantin or literary studies of Ruth Amossy.

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