Plato on rhetoric and language
Subtitle: four key dialogues
By: introduction by Jean Nienkamp.
Contributors: Nienkamp, Jean.
Publisher: Hermagoras Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Mahwah, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800; Language and languages -- Philosophy -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Description: "Collected here for the first time in one volume, four key Platonic dialogues-the Ion, the Protagorus, the Gorgius and the Phaedrus - serve as an important introduction to the productive ambiguities of Platonic thought on rhetoric and language. In her introduction to the volume, editor Jean Nienkamp considers Plato's views on language, genre, and writing, and outlines the critical issues involved in the study of Platonic thought on rhetoric and poetics.

Readers are invited to participate in the dialogues as vital philosophical conversations about issues that animate contemporary rhetorical and literary thought today."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-217) and index.
Table of contents: title: Ion; title: Protagoras; title: Gorgias; title: Phaedrus.