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Autore |
McComiskey Bruce <1963-> |
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Titolo |
Gorgias and the new sophistic rhetoric / / Bruce McComiskey |
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Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, c2002 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-57202-8 |
0-8093-9013-2 |
9786613884473 |
1-4294-1772-2 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (176 p.) |
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Collana |
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Rhetorical philosophy and theory |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Rhetoric, Ancient |
Sophists (Greek philosophy) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-149) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric, Bruce McComiskey achieves three rhetorical goals: he treats a single sophist's rhetorical technê (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 |
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