Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric
(Part of the Rhetorical Philosophy & Theory Series)
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In Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric, Bruce McComiskey achieves three rhetorical goals: he treats a single sophist's rhetorical techn (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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0809323974
ISBN13:9780809323975
Release Date:January 2002
Publisher:Southern Illinois University Press
Length:176 Pages
Weight:0.88 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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