Table of Contents

1. Acknowledgements; 2. Introduction: Dialectic and the notion of tradition; 3. 1. Aristotle and the art of dialectic; 4. 2. Dialectic in the Latin world: Cicero, Boethius and the scholastics; 5. 3. The revival of dialectic in the Renaissance: An introduction; 6. 4. The new humanist dialectic and rhetoric: Rudolph Agricola on invention and probability; 7. 5. The Topics and Renaissance Aristotelianism: Agostino Nifo's commentary and his sources; 8. 6. Dialectic and dialogue: Carlo Sigonio and the "road to truth"; 9. 7. Rhetoric, dialectic and epistemology in contemporary argumentation theory; 10. Conclusion: The epistemological value of Aristotelian dialectic; 11. Endnotes; 12. References; 13. Index; 14. Name index; 15. Subject index

Reviews

The Art of Dialectic between Dialogue and Rhetoric is full of insightful textual analysis and penetrating philosophical discussion.
*George Lazaroiu, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences and Spiru Haret University, in Sixteenth Century Journal XLV/1 (2014), pp. 157-159*