试析刘亚猛《西方修辞学史》的学术话语建构

An analysis on the scholastic discourse construction in A Historical Study of Western Rhetoric by Liu Yamen

《西方修辞学史》是一部新颖、独特的学科史论著。该书与国外同类作品的一个显著区别是,作者置身于一个跨文化语境,不受西方政治意识形态立场、欧洲中心主义、学术政治等的掣肘,将西方修辞学科史置于广阔的社会、历史尤其是智力语境等大背景中加以考察,围绕西方修辞学的滥觞及其兴衰成败的发展历程这一主线,囊括主要的修辞思想家及其代表作品,内容涉及修辞与哲学、宗教、伦理、文学批评、论辩以及当代西方修辞研究现状及其特征等,是一部学术性较高的修辞学科史。

A Historical Study of Western Rhetoric is a newly published book by Professor Liu Ya- meng, which examines the historical development of Western rhetoric as a discipline. The book dis- tinguishes itself from the other Western similar publications as the author placed himself within a cross-cultural context free of constraints imposed by Western political and ideological position, Euroeentrism and scholarly politics and formed conceptualization against the background of social, histor- ical and intellectual contexts. Dating back to the birth of rhetoric as a discipline in ancient Greece, the book covers the historical development of western rhetoric, which involves the major rhetoricians and their perspectives. The book＇s significance lies in dealing widely with the relation between rhetoric and philosophy, between rhetoric and religion, between rhetoric and ethics, between rhetoric and literary criticism, and between rhetoric and argumentation and the latest development of contemporary Western rhetorical studies.