Plato’s Gorgias : labyrinth and threads / Mário Jorge de Carvalho, Tomaz Fidalgo [editors].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tomaz Fidalgo

Contributor:

Carvalho, Mário Jorge de, editor.

Fidalgo, Tomaz, editor.

Series:

Outros titulos

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Coimbra University Press 2020

Portugal : Coimbra University Press, 2020

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Though at first it may seem to deal with rather specific questions concerning rhetoric, Plato’s Gorgias turns out to be about human life, and what is at stake in it. This apparent “change of subject” – or rather this ambiguity in the dialogue’s subject matter – has to do with the fact that the Gorgias is very much like a labyrinth: puzzling, intricate, made of multiple meandering paths in which one can easily get lost, and full of deviations which turn this way and that, of entrances that seem to be dead ends, and of dizzying turns that distort all sense of direction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

989-26-2007-0