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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
2002.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "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 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (176 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780809390137 |