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Chaïm Perelman
Belgian philosopher (1912–1984)
Chaïm Perelman (born Henio (or Henri) Perelman; sometimes referred to mistakenly as Charles Perelman) (20 May 1912 – 22 January 1984) was a Belgian philosopher of Polish-Jewish origin.
He was among the most important argumentation theorists of the 20th 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).
Life and work
Perelman and his family emigrated from Warsaw to Antwerp, Belgium, in 1925.
This handbook brings together top scholars and researchers from across the disciplines who are doing work in rhetorical studies.He began his undergraduate studies at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, where he would remain for the duration of his career. He earned a doctorate in law in 1934, and after completing a dissertation on the philosopher and mathematician Gottlob Frege, earned a second doctorate in 1938.
In the same year, Perelman was appointed lecturer at Brussels
