Formen und Funktionen von Polemik in den Briefen Augustins: Versuch einer Klassifikation
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- Due to the conventions of late-antique epistolary politeness, it is not always easy to identify polemical passages in Augustine’s correspondence. The present contribution attempts to discern and classify some recurrent techniques and strategies that are characteristic of letters the addressee of which is him- or herself the target of Augustine’s polemics, i. e. in which polemical rhetoric is blended with diplomacy. After describing some more formal techniques, such as polemical hermeneutics and Refraintechnik, I turn to the rhetorical, i. e.Due to the conventions of late-antique epistolary politeness, it is not always easy to identify polemical passages in Augustine’s correspondence. The present contribution attempts to discern and classify some recurrent techniques and strategies that are characteristic of letters the addressee of which is him- or herself the target of Augustine’s polemics, i. e. in which polemical rhetoric is blended with diplomacy. After describing some more formal techniques, such as polemical hermeneutics and Refraintechnik, I turn to the rhetorical, i. e. persuasive, functions of polemics in Augustine’s anti-pagan, anti-Donatist and anti-Pelagian letters, using the basic distinction between direct polemics (polemics against the addressee in person) and indirect polemics (polemics against the addressee’s group or friends) as a starting point. Another relevant distinction, taken into account throughout, is whether a polemical letter is primarily designed to impress the immediate addressee or to have an effect on the wider readership that Augustine had to reckon with as soon as a letter was dispatched.…
Author: | Christian Tornau |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-198465 |
Document Type: | Journal article |
Faculties: | Philosophische Fakultät (Histor., philolog., Kultur- und geograph. Wissensch.) / Institut für klassische Philologie |
Language: | German |
Parent Title (German): | Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum |
Parent Title (English): | Journal of Ancient Christianity |
ISSN: | 1612-961X |
ISSN: | 0949-9571 |
Year of Completion: | 2018 |
Volume: | 22 |
Issue: | 1 |
First Page: | 5 |
Last Page: | 49 |
Source: | Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity (2018) 22:1, 5-49. https://doi.org/10.1515/zac-2018-0012 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1515/zac-2018-0012 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 18 Antike, mittelalterliche und östliche Philosophie / 180 Antike, mittelalterliche und östliche Philosophie |
2 Religion / 27 Geschichte des Christentums / 270 Geschichte des Christentums, Kirchengeschichte | |
8 Literatur / 87 Lateinische, italische Literaturen / 876 Lateinische Briefe | |
Tag: | Refraintechnik Donatism; Pelagianism; direct and indirect polemics; paganism; pathos; polemical hermeneutics; rhetoric |
Release Date: | 2022/03/17 |
Date of first Publication: | 2018/06/02 |
Note: | Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich. |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |