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The Significance of Ivo Škarić
for the Academic Development
of Rhetoric/Public Speaking
in Croatia
Gordana Varošanec-Škarić, University of Zagreb
Professor Emeritus Ivo Škarić was born on 19 April 1933 in Posti-
ra, on the island of Brač and he left us on 29 January 2009. Profes-
sor Škarić was an actual authority in the field of public speaking in
Croatia. He authored seven books and about hundred and fifty scien-
tific papers, and he was also well-known to the Croatian public for his
many newspaper articles and interviews on television.
He published three books on rhetoric, U potrazi za izgubljenim gov-
orom (In Search for Lost Speech, 1st edition 1982), Temeljci suvremenog
govorništva (Cornerstones of Contemporary Rhetoric, 2000, 2nd edition
2003) and Argumentacija (Argumentation, 2011). The last one – Argu-
mentacija – was published posthumously at the end of 2011. During
the last years of his life, rethinking the meaning of science, and possi-
ble truth in rhetoric, he returned to the values of Nietzsche, Husserl,
and Heidegger, shaping his understanding of argumentation by respect-
ing the past and incorporating it into present, consciously contemplat-
ing possible thematic fields of argumentation, including the one about
decisions having future consequences.
He published many articles in the field of public speaking, for ex-
ample Culture of Public Speaking Programme, Culture and Speaking,
Culture of Speaking – Quality and Quantity, Measuring the Culture
of Speaking, Culture of Speaking or by Speaking, Speech Universals,
Euphony, Logic, Attentive Speech Listening, Identification Through
Speech, Speaking Technique, Speech Volume, Time of Speaking,
Speech Cognition, Speech – Cold Medium, Poetics in Speech, Conven-
tional Speech, Rhetoric, Speech Preparation.
The Significance of Ivo Škarić
for the Academic Development
of Rhetoric/Public Speaking
in Croatia
Gordana Varošanec-Škarić, University of Zagreb
Professor Emeritus Ivo Škarić was born on 19 April 1933 in Posti-
ra, on the island of Brač and he left us on 29 January 2009. Profes-
sor Škarić was an actual authority in the field of public speaking in
Croatia. He authored seven books and about hundred and fifty scien-
tific papers, and he was also well-known to the Croatian public for his
many newspaper articles and interviews on television.
He published three books on rhetoric, U potrazi za izgubljenim gov-
orom (In Search for Lost Speech, 1st edition 1982), Temeljci suvremenog
govorništva (Cornerstones of Contemporary Rhetoric, 2000, 2nd edition
2003) and Argumentacija (Argumentation, 2011). The last one – Argu-
mentacija – was published posthumously at the end of 2011. During
the last years of his life, rethinking the meaning of science, and possi-
ble truth in rhetoric, he returned to the values of Nietzsche, Husserl,
and Heidegger, shaping his understanding of argumentation by respect-
ing the past and incorporating it into present, consciously contemplat-
ing possible thematic fields of argumentation, including the one about
decisions having future consequences.
He published many articles in the field of public speaking, for ex-
ample Culture of Public Speaking Programme, Culture and Speaking,
Culture of Speaking – Quality and Quantity, Measuring the Culture
of Speaking, Culture of Speaking or by Speaking, Speech Universals,
Euphony, Logic, Attentive Speech Listening, Identification Through
Speech, Speaking Technique, Speech Volume, Time of Speaking,
Speech Cognition, Speech – Cold Medium, Poetics in Speech, Conven-
tional Speech, Rhetoric, Speech Preparation.
