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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McComiskey, Bruce, 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2002.
Series:Rhetorical philosophy and theory.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.