Saving Persuasion

A Defense of Rhetoric and Judgment

Bryan Garsten

  • 2005 Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press
  • 2006 First Book Award from the Foundations of Political Theory Section, APSA
  • 2008 Delba Winthrop Mansfield Memorial Fund Book Award

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Persuasion

Part One: Against Rhetoric
1. The Rhetoric against Rhetoric: Hobbes
2. Persuading without Convincing: Rousseau
3. The Sovereignty of Scholars: Kant

Part Two: For Rhetoric
4. Drawing upon Judgment: Aristotle
5. Conviction and Controversy: Cicero
6. Persuasion and Deliberation

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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Bryan Garsten is Professor of Political Science, Yale University.