TY - BOOK ID - 77891053 TI - The Rhetorics of Thomas Hobbes and Bernard Lamy AU - Harwood, John T. AU - Harwood, John T PY - 2009 SN - 1282139053 9786613808349 0809386828 0585257795 9780585257792 9780809386826 0809313014 9780809313013 0809313022 9780809313020 0809329026 9780809329021 PB - Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Oratory -- Early works to 1800. KW - Rhetoric, Ancient. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77891053 AB - Makes accessible to modern readers the 17th-century rhetorics of Thomas Hobbes (1588-1677) and Bernard Lamy (1640-1715) Hobbes' A Briefe of the Art of Rhetorique, the first English translation of Aristotle's rhetoric, reflects Hobbes' sense of rhetoric as a central instrument of self-defense in an increasingly fractious Commonwealth. In its approach to rhetoric, which Hobbes defines as "that Faculty by which wee understand what will serve our turne, concerning any subject, to winne beliefe in the hearer," the Briefe looks forward to Hobbes' ER -