The rebirth of dialogue : Bakhtin, Socrates, and the rhetorical tradition / James P. Zappen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zappen, James Philip.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato. Dialogues.

Plato.

Socrates.

Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975.

Bakhtin, M. M.

Dialogue analysis.

Rhetoric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Dialogue has suffered a long eclipse in the history of philosophy and the history of rhetoric but has enjoyed a rebirth in the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer, Martin Buber, and Mikhail Bakhtin. Among twentieth-century figures, Bakhtin took a special interest in the history of the dialogue form. This book explores Bakhtin's understanding of Socratic dialogue and the notion that dialogue is not simply a way of persuading others to accept our ideas, but a way of holding ourselves, and others, accountable for all of our thoughts, words, and actions. In supporting this premise, Bakhtin challenges the traditions of argument and persuasion handed down from Plato and Aristotle, and he offers, as an alternative, a dialogical rhetoric that restructures the traditional relationship between speakers and listeners, writers and readers, as a mutual testing, contesting, and creating of ideas. The author suggests that Bakhtin's dialogical rhetoric is not restricted to oral discourse, but is possible in any medium, including written, graphic, and digital.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Traditional Socrates

Mikhail M. Bakhtin, Dialogical Rhetoric, and the Socratic Dialogue

Cultural Conflict and the Testing of Persons and Ideas in the Laches

Truth as Dialogic

Dialogue as Carnival

Dialogical Rhetoric in Print and Digital Media

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-220) and index.

ISBN:

9780791484906

0791484904

9781423739944

1423739949

OCLC:

62756120