Abstract
Abstract Rhetorical features in a text are integral to its aesthetic and persuasive quality. They prefigure its oral, or indeed oratory, character. However, with their inevitable exaggeration of a discursive point they often run contrary to any claim of truthfulness. This very fact has given ‚rhetoric‘ a negative flair. Around 1800, in the aftermath of the French Revolution and in the course of Napoleon’s occupation of most of Europe, discourses on rhetoric as a liberating, or at least emancipatory force regained a politically charged prominence. Adam Müller, for one, argued that in Germany in particular, a proper culture of the rhetorical would be crucial whilst Heinrich von Kleist examined the emergence of thought from rhetorical situations. This contribution discusses the far-reaching implications of these discourses in terms of their aesthetic and political implications.
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