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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777895803321

Autore

McComiskey Bruce <1963->

Titolo

Gorgias and the new sophistic rhetoric [[electronic resource] /] / Bruce McComiskey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, c2002

ISBN

1-283-57202-8

0-8093-9013-2

9786613884473

1-4294-1772-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 p.)

Collana

Rhetorical philosophy and theory

Disciplina

808/.00938

Soggetti

Rhetoric, Ancient

Sophists (Greek philosophy)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1 Part One: Historical Interpretation 1. Disassembling Plato's Critique of Rhetoric in the Gorgias (447a-466a) 17 2. Gorgias and the Art of Rhetoric 32 Part Two: Neosophistic Appropriation 3. Neosophistic Rhetorical Theory 55 4. Postmodern Sophistics 77 5. The Global Village, Multiculturalism, and the Functions of Sophistic Rhetoric 97 Appendix: A Selected Bibliography on Sophistic Rhetoric and Philosophy 121.

Sommario/riassunto

In Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric, Bruce McComiskey achieves three rhetorical goals: he treats a single sophist's rhetorical techneĢ‚ (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