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Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale
"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...
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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."--BOOK JACKET
Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-149) and index
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
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
