Seeming & being in Plato's rhetorical theory / Robin Reames.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reames, Robin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato.

Rhetoric--Philosophy.

Rhetoric.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Sophists (Greek philosophy).

Physical Description:

xiv, 229 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.

Contents:

Introduction: Literacy, dramatic form, metaphysics: rereading Plato's rhetoric

The "cosmetics" of sophistry: seeming and being in the Gorgias

The oral poet and the literate sophist: divine madness and rhetorical inoculation in the Phaedrus

Heraclitean opposition and Parmenidean contradiction: pre-Socratic ontology and Protagorean sophistry in the Cratylus, the Theaetetus, and the Euthydemus

Sophistry without measure, dialectic without rhetoric: the interpretive dispute in the Protagoras

The rhetoric of mimêsis: sophistic imitation and seeming in the Republic

Imitators of truth: the rhetorical theories of onoma and rhêma in the Sophist and the Cratylus

Epilogue: The past and future of Plato's rhetorical theory.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226567013

022656701X

OCLC:

1022775522