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

• Autore: McComiskey Bruce <1963->
• Pubblicazione: Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, c2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (176 p.)
• Disciplina: 808/.00938
• Soggetto topico: Rhetoric, Ancient; Sophists (Greek philosophy)
• 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 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Gorgias and the new sophistic rhetoric
• ISBN: 1-283-57202-8; 0-8093-9013-2; 9786613884473; 1-4294-1772-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777895803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Rhetorical Philosophy & Theory