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Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric

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In Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric, Bruce McComiskey achieves three rhetorical goals: he treats a single sophist's rhetorical technê (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. In the first two chapters, McComiskey deals with a misconception based on selective and Platonic readings of the extant fragments: that Gorgias's rhetorical technê involves the deceptive practice of manipulating public opinion. This popular and ultimately misleading interpretati

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Autorius: Bruce McComiskey
Leidėjas: Southern Illinois University Press
Išleidimo metai: 2012
Knygos puslapių skaičius: 176
ISBN-13: 9780809331369
Formatas: 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches. Knyga minkštu viršeliu
Kalba: Anglų

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