Chaim Perelman

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Chaïm Perelman (1912-1984) was a Jewish philosopher best known for his book The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentation (Traité de L'argumentation - La Nouvelle Rhétorique) in 1958 with Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca. Perelman was a professor of logic and metaphysics at Université Libre in Brussels in 1944 and spent most of his career there. His focus on mathematical logic would later shift to forms of discursive reasoning and notions of justice.

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Biography

Early Life

Perelman's Jewish heritage had a profound impact on his outlook on life and strongly influenced his views on justice, a key to his concept of argumentation and The New Rhetoric. Perelman, experiencing post-World World I Europe, rise of Hitler, and widespread anti-Semitism, created and lead the Jewish wing of the Belgium resistance movement. The horrors of the Holocaust would later cause him to publicly announce his devotion to the Jewish notion of justice and cultural Judaism.


Education

Article Summaries

Perelman, Chaïm "The New Rhetoric: A Theory of Practical Reasoning"

Additional Works/Publications

Books

Articles/Essays

Further Readings

Frank, David A. (1997). "New Rhetoric, Judaism, and Post-Enlightenment Thought: The Cultural Origins of Perelmanian Philosophy."


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