Oxford University Press

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This book offers a counter-traditional account of the history of both rhetoric and poetics. In reply to traditional rhetorical histories, which view "e;rhetoric"e; as an art of practical civic oratory, the book argues in four extended essays that epideictic-poetic eloquence was central, even fundamental, to the rhetorical tradition in...

Science, Religion, and the New Environmental EthosArgues that a new dialogue between truths of science and religion provides a basis for articulating and disseminating an environmental ethos which could result in the fairly rapid emergence of well organized and highly effective worldwide movement in religious environmentalism...

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British Moral Philosophers from Sidgwick to EwingA team of eminent contemporary philosophers present the first collective study of        seminal British moral thinkers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Some, like        Henry Sidgwick and G. E. Moore, are already recognized as leading philosophers of        their day; others, like...

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