LEADER 03117nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910452154603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-57202-8 010 $a0-8093-9013-2 010 $a9786613884473 010 $a1-4294-1772-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000468068 035 $a(EBL)1354464 035 $a(OCoLC)815276701 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000760747 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12351539 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000760747 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10715168 035 $a(PQKB)10783819 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000164606 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11161837 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000164606 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10124742 035 $a(PQKB)10950265 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1354464 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse22217 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1354464 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10594429 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL388447 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000468068 100 $a20001208d2002 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGorgias and the new sophistic rhetoric$b[electronic resource] /$fBruce McComiskey 210 $aCarbondale $cSouthern Illinois University Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (176 p.) 225 0 $aRhetorical philosophy and theory 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8093-3136-5 311 $a0-8093-2397-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 143-149) and index. 327 $aMachine 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. 330 $aIn Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric, Bruce McComiskey achieves three rhetorical goals: he treats a single sophist's rhetorical techne? (art) in the context of the intellectual upheavals of fifth-century bce Greece, thus avoiding the problem of generalizing about a disparate group of individuals; he argues that we must abandon Platonic assumptions regarding the sophists in general and Gorgias in particular, opting instead for a holistic reading of the Gorgianic fragments; and he reexamines the practice of appropriating sophistic doctrines, particularly 410 0$aRhetorical Philosophy & Theory 606 $aRhetoric, Ancient 606 $aSophists (Greek philosophy) 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aRhetoric, Ancient. 615 0$aSophists (Greek philosophy) 676 $a808/.00938 700 $aMcComiskey$b Bruce$f1963-$0881606 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452154603321 996 $aGorgias and the new sophistic rhetoric$91968796 997 $aUNINA