%0 Journal Article %T La critique augustinienne de l’éducation classique dans les Confessions. Lecture néo-rhétorique %A Collinet, Françoise %J Romanica Cracoviensia %V Tom 20 (2020) %R 10.4467/20843917RC.20.008.12554 %N Tom 20, Numer 2 %P 73-83 %K new rhetoric, epideictic, education, cultural relativism, Saint Augustine %@ 1732-8705 %D 2020 %U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/romanica-cracoviensia/artykul/la-critique-augustinienne-de-leducation-classique-dans-les-confessions-lecture-neo-rhetorique %X Augustine’s critic of classical education from the New Rhetoric’s perspective This paper shouldn’t be considered as a specialized study on Augustinian texts. Its ambition is much limited: to show how the New Rhetoric offers a frame which helps to supplely address the competition between argumentative configurations emerging from different socio-cultural backgrounds. Saint Augustine’s Confessions, and in particular the critique of classical education which was the author’s own education, allows us examine 4 aspects which seem intimately intertwined in the Perelman’s system: (a) the relation between epideictic and education (as both reinforce the adhesion to fundamental values in a given society), (b) the socio-historically situated character of those values and (c) the interest of considering the New Rhetoric as a philosophical project?