Chaïm Perelman
1912
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1984
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
movement: New rhetorics, École de Bruxelles
native language: French
languages spoken, written or signed: French
educated at: Free University of Brussels
occupation: philosopher, professor, university teacher
award received: Francqui Prize, honorary doctor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
influenced by: Eugène Dupréel, Marcel Barzin
Chaïm Perelman (born Henio (or Henri) Perelman; sometimes referred to mistakenly as Charles Perelman) (20 May 1912, Warsaw – 22 January 1984, Brussels) was a Belgian philosopher of Polish-Jewish origin. He was among the most important argumentation theorists of the twentieth century. His chief work is the Traité de l'argumentation – la nouvelle rhétorique (1958), with Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca, translated into English as The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentation, by John Wilkinson and Purcell Weaver (1969). Source: Wikipedia (en)
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