Lucie olbrechts tyteca biography

Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca (1899–1987) was a Belgian academic, sociologist and longtime co-worker of the philosopher Chaïm Perelman.
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Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca (Sint-Gillis, 1899 – aldaar, 1987) was een Belgische sociologe die vanaf 1948 met de filosoof Chaïm Perelman samenwerkte en de.

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New Rhetoric, The

The New Rhetoric is founded on the idea that since “argumentation aims at securing the adherence of those to whom it is addressed, it is, in its entirety, relative to the audience to be influenced,” says Chaïm Perelman and L. Olbrechts-Tyteca, and they rely, in particular, for their theory of argumentation on the twin concepts of universal and particular audiences: while every argument is directed to a specific individual or group, the orator decides what information and what approaches will achieve the greatest adherence according to an ideal audience. This ideal, Perelman explains, can be embodied, for example, "in God, in all reasonable and competent men, in the man deliberating or in an elite.” Like particular audiences, then, the universal audience is never fixed or absolute but depends on the orator, the content and goals of the argument, and the particular audience to whom the argument is addressed. These considerations determine what information constitutes "facts" and "reasonableness" and thus help to determine the universal audience that, in turn, sh

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Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca

Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca (Sint-Gillis, 1899 – aldaar, 1987) was een Belgische sociologe die vanaf 1948 met de filosoof Chaïm Perelman samenwerkte en de stroming genaamd de Nieuwe Retorica ontwikkelde.

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Olbrechts-Tyteca werd in 1899 geboren in een Brusselse familie. Zij studeerde geesteswetenschappen en onderzoeksmethoden in de sociale wetenschappen aan de Université libre de Bruxelles, zonder enige ambitie om carrière te maken. Ze trouwde met de statisticus Raymond Olbrechts, die elf jaar ouder was, en werd daarna wetenschapper. In 1948 ontmoette zij Perelman.

Olbrechts-Tyteca en Perelman werkten van 1948 tot aan de dood van Perelman in 1984 samen. Zij bestudeerden de argumentatieleer en deden meerdere bijdragen aan deze discipline. Ze schreven Le Traité de l’argumentation, la nouvelle rhétorique.^[1] Haar bijdrage zou hebben bestaan uit het verduidelijken van de ideeën van Perelman, die vooral de theoretische aspecten heeft uitgewerkt.

Zij heeft ook gewerkt aan de verhouding tussen de re

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Introduction: Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca’s New Rhetoric Project (NRP)—“[T]he Single Most Important Event in Contemporary Rhetorical Theory”

Chaïm Perelman (1912–1984), a Belgian Jew, achieved global recognition as a scholar in the humanities. He was also celebrated for his leadership of the Jewish underground in Belgium during World War II, an experience central to the purpose of his scholarship, which was to redeem reason and civil society in the wake of war and genocide. After the war, Perelman alone, and in collaboration with Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca (1926–1994), wrote more than 350 books, book chapters, and essays outlining a vision of rhetoric as an answer to the post-war “crisis of reason”.¹

Perelman, alone and with Olbrechts-Tyteca who joined him in 1946, sought to answer the question: How can humans reason about values and cultivate a moral civil society in the aftermath of the Holocaust, World War II, and the absence of absolutes? Their answer was to develop a new rhetoric, or what we term the New Rhetoric Project [NRP]. The NRP