Modern Dogma And The Rhetoric Of Assent by Wayne C. Booth
This work examines how people come to accept beliefs—not through purely formal proofs but through rhetorical practices that shape trust, credibility, and moral judgment; it critiques both rigid skepticism and authoritarian dogmatism and argues for a constructive rhetoric of assent in which writers and speakers responsibly cultivate conviction by attending to audience, character, context, and narrative rather than relying on coercion or abstract certainties.
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- 1974
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