By Professor Bruce McComiskey
ISBN-10: 0809323974
ISBN-13: 9780809323975
ISBN-10: 0809331365
ISBN-13: 9780809331369
In Gorgias and the recent Sophistic Rhetoric, Bruce McComiskey achieves 3 rhetorical targets: he treats a unmarried sophist's rhetorical technê (art) within the context of the highbrow upheavals of fifth-century bce Greece, therefore averting the matter of generalizing a few disparate crew of people; he argues that we needs to abandon Platonic assumptions in regards to the sophists usually and Gorgias particularly, opting in its place for a holistic studying of the Gorgianic fragments; and he reexamines the perform of appropriating sophistic doctrines, quite these of Gorgias, in gentle of the recent interpretation of Gorgianic rhetoric provided during this book.
In the 1st chapters, McComiskey bargains with a false impression in line with selective and Platonic readings of the extant fragments: that Gorgias's rhetorical technê comprises the misleading perform of manipulating public opinion. This well known and eventually deceptive interpretation of Gorgianic doctrines has been the root for lots of neosophistic appropriations. the ultimate 3 chapters take care of the character and scope of neosophistic rhetoric in mild of the non-Platonic and holistic interpretation of Gorgianic rhetoric McComiskey postulates in his beginning chapters. He concludes through reading the way forward for communique stories to find what roles neosophistic doctrines may perhaps play within the twenty-first century.
McComiskey additionally presents a selective bibliography of scholarship on sophistic rhetoric and philosophy in English considering that 1900.
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