Gorgias and the new sophistic rhetoric / Bruce McComiskey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McComiskey, Bruce, 1963-

Series:

Rhetorical Philosophy & Theory

Rhetorical philosophy and theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Sophists (Greek philosophy).

Plato. Gorgias.

Plato.

Gorgias, of Leontini.

Gorgias.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

1-283-57202-8

0-8093-9013-2

9786613884473

1-4294-1772-2

OCLC:

815276701