Law and Rhetoric in Ancient Greece and Today
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Michael Gagarin
Abstract
This paper examines the interaction of law and rhetoric in classical Athens and in current US common law. I argue that there is an inevitable tension between rhetoric, which operates with words (Greek logoi), and law, which supposedly deals with facts (Greek erga) but necessarily works also with words. The Greeks understood this tension and accepted it, whereas today we often try to deny it, though recent work in the field of Law and Literature has done much to illuminate the operation of rhetoric in law today.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Vorwort
- Recht als Gegenstand rhetorischer Grundlagenforschung
- Law and Rhetoric in Ancient Greece and Today
- Perspective Taking als Methode zur kommunikativen Kompetenzentwicklung im Jurastudium
- Vision and Decision
- Über Rechtsrhetorik
- Zur πειθώ des Gesetzgebers in Platons Nomoi
- Was sagt uns ein Gesetz?
- Rezensionen
- Knape, Joachim: Die Dinge. Ihr Bild, ihr Design und ihre Rhetorik. Wiesbaden 2019 (= Gratia. Tübinger Schriften zur Renaissanceforschung und Kulturwissenschaft 64).
- Franz-Hubert Robling: Rhetorische Ethik. Hamburg 2020.
- Kramer, Olaf; Gottschling, Markus (Hrsg.): Recontextualized Knowledge. Rhetoric – Situation – Science Communication. Berlin/Boston 2021 (= neue rhetoric / new rhetoric 36).
- Raulet, Gérard: Politik des Ornaments. Münster 2021.
- Wallraf, David: Grenzen des Hörens. Noise und die Akustik des Politischen. Bielefeld 2021.
- Bibliographie
- Bibliographie deutschsprachiger Rhetorikforschung 2020
- Verzeichnis der Autorinnen und Autoren
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Vorwort
- Recht als Gegenstand rhetorischer Grundlagenforschung
- Law and Rhetoric in Ancient Greece and Today
- Perspective Taking als Methode zur kommunikativen Kompetenzentwicklung im Jurastudium
- Vision and Decision
- Über Rechtsrhetorik
- Zur πειθώ des Gesetzgebers in Platons Nomoi
- Was sagt uns ein Gesetz?
- Rezensionen
- Knape, Joachim: Die Dinge. Ihr Bild, ihr Design und ihre Rhetorik. Wiesbaden 2019 (= Gratia. Tübinger Schriften zur Renaissanceforschung und Kulturwissenschaft 64).
- Franz-Hubert Robling: Rhetorische Ethik. Hamburg 2020.
- Kramer, Olaf; Gottschling, Markus (Hrsg.): Recontextualized Knowledge. Rhetoric – Situation – Science Communication. Berlin/Boston 2021 (= neue rhetoric / new rhetoric 36).
- Raulet, Gérard: Politik des Ornaments. Münster 2021.
- Wallraf, David: Grenzen des Hörens. Noise und die Akustik des Politischen. Bielefeld 2021.
- Bibliographie
- Bibliographie deutschsprachiger Rhetorikforschung 2020
- Verzeichnis der Autorinnen und Autoren
