Gorgias And The New Sophistic Rhetoric
Bruce McComiskey · 2012
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"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.
Book details
- Year
- 2012
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 156
- ISBN
- 9780809331369
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