Gorgias and the new sophistic rhetoric / Bruce McComiskey.

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McComiskey, Bruce, 1963-

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780809390137
0809390132
1429417722
9781429417723
1283572028
9781283572026
9786613884473
6613884472

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Gorgias and the new sophistic rhetoric.DDC classification:

808/.00938 22

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PA4279.G7 M38 2002eb

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Contents:

Introduction -- Part One: Historical Interpretation -- 1. Disassembling Plato's Critique of Rhetoric in the Gorgias (447a-466a) -- 2. Gorgias and the Art of Rhetoric -- Part Two: Neosophistic Appropriation -- 3. Neosophistic Rhetorical Theory -- 4. Postmodern Sophistics -- 5. The Global Village, Multiculturalism, and the Functions of Sophistic Rhetoric -- Appendix: A Selected Bibliography on Sophistic Rhetoric and Philosophy.

Review: "In Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric, Bruce McComiskey achieves three rhetorical goals: he treats a single sophist's rhetorical techne (art) in the context of the intellectual upheavals of fifth-century BCE Greece, thus avoiding the problem of generalizing about a disparate group of individuals; he argues that we must abandon Platonic assumptions regarding the sophists in general and Gorgias in particular, opting instead for a holistic reading of the Gorgianic fragments; and he reexamines the practice of appropriating sophistic doctrines, particularly those of Gorgias, in light of the new interpretation of Gorgianic rhetoric offered in this book."--Jacket

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-149) and index.

"In Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric, Bruce McComiskey achieves three rhetorical goals: he treats a single sophist's rhetorical techne (art) in the context of the intellectual upheavals of fifth-century BCE Greece, thus avoiding the problem of generalizing about a disparate group of individuals; he argues that we must abandon Platonic assumptions regarding the sophists in general and Gorgias in particular, opting instead for a holistic reading of the Gorgianic fragments; and he reexamines the practice of appropriating sophistic doctrines, particularly those of Gorgias, in light of the new interpretation of Gorgianic rhetoric offered in this book."--Jacket