Gorgias and the new sophistic rhetoric
By: Bruce McComiskey.
Series: Rhetorical philosophy and theory
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
Subjects: Plato; Gorgias, of Leontini; Rhetoric, Ancient; Sophists (Greek philosophy)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-149) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1 Part One: Historical Interpretation 1. Disassembling Plato's Critique of Rhetoric in the Gorgias (447a-466a) 17 2. Gorgias and the Art of Rhetoric 32 Part Two: Neosophistic Appropriation 3. Neosophistic Rhetorical Theory 55 4. Postmodern Sophistics 77 5. The Global Village, Multiculturalism, and the Functions of Sophistic Rhetoric 97 Appendix: A Selected Bibliography on Sophistic Rhetoric and Philosophy 121.