Gorgias and the new sophistic rhetoric
"In Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric, Bruce McComiskey achieves three rhetorical goals: he treats a single sophist's rhetorical techne (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 those of Gorgias, in light of the new interpretation of Gorgianic rhetoric offered in this book."--Jacket
eBook, English, ©2002
Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, ©2002
1 online resource (156 pages)
9780809390137, 9781429417723, 9781283572026, 9786613884473, 0809390132, 1429417722, 1283572028, 6613884472
815276701
Introduction
Part One: Historical Interpretation
1. Disassembling Plato's Critique of Rhetoric in the Gorgias (447a-466a)
2. Gorgias and the Art of Rhetoric
Part Two: Neosophistic Appropriation
3. Neosophistic Rhetorical Theory
4. Postmodern Sophistics
5. The Global Village, Multiculturalism, and the Functions of Sophistic Rhetoric
Appendix: A Selected Bibliography on Sophistic Rhetoric and Philosophy
English
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