Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca

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Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca (* 1899 in Brussels ; † 1987 ) was a Belgian literary scholar and long-standing academic partner of the argumentation theorist Chaïm Perelman , to whom she volunteered.

Life

Olbrechts-Tyteca - coming from an influential Brussels family - studied literary and social science topics and methods at the University of Brussels without ever aiming for a professional career. She later married the statistician Raymond Olbrechts, who was eleven years her senior, and led an academically and socially withdrawn life until she met the philosopher Chaïm Perelman in 1948.

Between 1948 and 1984, Olbrechts-Tyteca and Perelman developed a comprehensive work on argumentation theory, the main contribution of which was Traité de l'argumentation. La nouvelle rhetorique - together with the work by Stephen Toulmin published in the same year - contributed significantly to the departure from argumentation- theoretic logicism . The influence remained until the 21st century. get into it. Olbrechts-Tyteca's exact contribution to this work and the other joint works is scientifically controversial, but as a rule the extensive practical parts are attributed to her, while Perelman the abstract theoretical parts.

Olbrechts-Tyteca established herself as an independent scholar with her elaboration on rhetoric and comics, Le Comique du Discours from 1974.

Works

  • With Chaïm Perelman: Rhétorique et philosophie. Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1952.
  • With Chaïm Perelman: Traité de l'argumentation. La nouvelle rhetorique. Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1958. German translation: The new rhetoric. A Treatise on Arguing. Edited by Josef Kopperschmidt . 2 vols. Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-7728-2229-0 .
  • Le Comique du Discours. Bruessels Press, 1974.

literature

  • Barbara Warnick: Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's Contribution to The New Rhetoric. In: Molly Meijer Wertheimer (ed.): Listening th Their Voices: The Rhetorical Activities of Historical Woman. University of South Carolina Press, Columbia 1997, pp. 69-85.
  • Noemi Mattis-Perelman: Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca: A Personal Recollection. Letter to Ray D. Dearin, August 11, 1994. See Gross / Dearin: Chaim Perelman , 2003, p. 153.
  • David A. Frank, Michelle Bolduc: Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's New Rhetoric. In: Quarterly Journal of Speech. Vol. 96 No. 2, 2010, pp. 141-163.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Alan G. Gross , Ray D. Dearin: Chaim Perelman. SUNY Press, 2003, p. 6.
  2. ↑ Harald Wohlrapp : Argumentative validity. In: Wohlrapp (ed.): Ways of argumentation research. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1995, p. 282.
  3. ^ David A. Frank, Michelle Bolduc: Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's New Rhetoric. In: Quarterly Journal of Speech. Vol. 96 No. 2, 2010, pp. 141-142.
  4. ^ David A. Frank, Michelle Bolduc: Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's New Rhetoric. In: Quarterly Journal of Speech. Vol. 96 No. 2, 2010, p. 160.
personal data
SURNAME Olbrechts-Tyteca, Lucie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH 1987