Seminar für Allgemeine Rhetorik

Seminar for General Rhetoric

What is Rhetoric?

  1. The practice of strategic communication aimed at effective persuasion: in everyday life, in politics, in business, in science.

  2. The theorie of strategic communication, which dates back to ancient Greece and, together with philosophy, represents the oldest systematic theory in European intellectual history.

  3. Science of strategic communication, which is taught at the University of Tübingen at a separate institute with an inter- and transdisciplinary orientation.

News

Announcements

The BMBF-funded project ‘Arguing about sex and gender. Conflict and Consensus as a Challenge in Science Communication (KoKoKom)’ is picking up speed and can now be accessed on its own hompage.

Institute colloquium

The institute colloquium always takes place from 18.15 to 19.45 in room 119 of the Neuphilologicum.

29.4.2025Dr Annette Hautli-Janisz: Rhetoric, Linguistics and Argumentation
13.5.2025Deborah Wolf: Conspiracy theories in online videos
27.5.2025Prof Dr Doren Wohlleben: Rhetoric of Literary Mediation
24.6.2025Dr Dr Gernot Krapinger: Crusade Speech and Post-Antique Suasory (Problems of Translation and Reception)
8.7.2025Prof Dr Steffen Pappert: Poster Rhetoric in the 2025 Bundestag Election Campaign
22.7.2025Dr habil Franz-Hubert Robling: How is Rhetoric possible as a Critical Science? (lecture and text interpretation)
Rhetoric lecture in the auditorium of the ‘Brechtbau’.
Studies
Statue on a bookshelf.
Research
Staff of the Seminar for General Rehtorics in conversation.
Team

Address

University of Tübingen
Seminar for General Rhetoric
Wilhelmstraße 50
72074 Tübingen