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Philosophy as agôn : a study of Plato's Gorgias and related texts / Robert Metcalf.

Van Pelt Library B371 .M48 2018
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Metcalf, Robert D., author.
Series:
Rereading ancient philosophy
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Plato. Gorgias.
Plato.
Plato. Apology.
Apology (Plato).
Gorgias (Plato).
Rhetoric--Philosophy.
Rhetoric.
Physical Description:
ix, 223 pages ; 23 cm.
Place of Publication:
Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018.
Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The practice and problematization of philosophy as agon : Plato's Apology and Theaetetus
Elenchos as agon : Socrates, Gorgias, and Polus
Contesting the demos : Socrates and Callicles
Seeing the agon through a mythos.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780810137974
0810137976
9780810137981
0810137984
OCLC:
1037884838

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