A “Copenhagen School” of argumentation studies, based at KOMM
Emeritus Professor of Rhetoric Christian Kock and Marcus Lantz, Ph.D. , have published a collection of studies on argumentation (some new, some reprinted) by 13 scholars currently or formerly affiliated with the Rhetoric program at the University of Copenhagen. The title is Rhetorical Argumentation: The Copenhagen School.
The book is available for free download. It will be available in hard copy from amazon.com (and similar) shortly.
From the introduction
Aristotle taught us that rhetoric is centered around deliberation, and he emphasized that we may only deliberate about things that we can in fact undertake … . Rhetorical argumentation is, in its essence, the bedrock of such deliberation: It provides the reasons for and against various choices—reasons which we exchange when, in some human collective, we are to decide on a course of action. … The rhetorical tradition still has many untapped insights to contribute to the understanding and teaching of argumentation, and Copenhagen happened to provide a fruitful ground for maturing such insights. One important legacy of the rhetorical tradition is its status as a pedagogy of civic participation.