Author: Scott Porter Consigny
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570034244
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Aristophanes depicted him as a barbaric sycophant, Plato as a shallow opportunist, and Aristotle as an inept stylist, but the Greek teacher of rhetoric Gorgias of Leontini (483-375 BCE) has been again attracting attention from scholars. Consigny (English, Iowa State U.) articulates a coherent account of the enigmatic thinker and writer. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Gorgias, Sophist and Artist
Author: Scott Porter Consigny
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570034244
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Aristophanes depicted him as a barbaric sycophant, Plato as a shallow opportunist, and Aristotle as an inept stylist, but the Greek teacher of rhetoric Gorgias of Leontini (483-375 BCE) has been again attracting attention from scholars. Consigny (English, Iowa State U.) articulates a coherent account of the enigmatic thinker and writer. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570034244
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Aristophanes depicted him as a barbaric sycophant, Plato as a shallow opportunist, and Aristotle as an inept stylist, but the Greek teacher of rhetoric Gorgias of Leontini (483-375 BCE) has been again attracting attention from scholars. Consigny (English, Iowa State U.) articulates a coherent account of the enigmatic thinker and writer. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric
Author: Bruce McComiskey
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809323975
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
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 interpretation of Gorgianic doctrines has been the basis for many neosophistic appropriations. The final three chapters deal with the nature and scope of neosophistic rhetoric in light of the non-Platonic and holistic interpretation of Gorgianic rhetoric McComiskey postulates in his opening chapters. He concludes by examining the future of communication studies to discover what roles neosophistic doctrines might play in the twenty-first century. McComiskey also provides a selective bibliography of scholarship on sophistic rhetoric and philosophy in English since 1900.
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809323975
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
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 interpretation of Gorgianic doctrines has been the basis for many neosophistic appropriations. The final three chapters deal with the nature and scope of neosophistic rhetoric in light of the non-Platonic and holistic interpretation of Gorgianic rhetoric McComiskey postulates in his opening chapters. He concludes by examining the future of communication studies to discover what roles neosophistic doctrines might play in the twenty-first century. McComiskey also provides a selective bibliography of scholarship on sophistic rhetoric and philosophy in English since 1900.
The Birth of Rhetoric
Author: Robert Wardy
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134757301
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
What is rhetoric? Is it the capacity to persuade? Or is it 'mere' rhetoric: the ability to get others to do what the speaker wants, regardless of what they want? Robert Wardy uses Gorgias at the centre of this book and the debate.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134757301
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
What is rhetoric? Is it the capacity to persuade? Or is it 'mere' rhetoric: the ability to get others to do what the speaker wants, regardless of what they want? Robert Wardy uses Gorgias at the centre of this book and the debate.
Plato on the Value of Philosophy
Author: Tushar Irani
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107181984
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
This book explores Plato's views on what an 'art of argument' should look like, investigating the relationship between psychology and rhetoric.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107181984
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
This book explores Plato's views on what an 'art of argument' should look like, investigating the relationship between psychology and rhetoric.
Plato on the Rhetoric of Philosophers and Sophists
Author: Marina McCoy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780511366703
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Marina McCoy explores Plato's treatment of the rhetoric of philosophers and sophists.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780511366703
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Marina McCoy explores Plato's treatment of the rhetoric of philosophers and sophists.
The Unity of Plato's 'Gorgias'
Author: Devin Stauffer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521858472
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This book demonstrates the complex unity of Plato's Gorgias, showing how seemingly disparate themes are woven together.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521858472
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This book demonstrates the complex unity of Plato's Gorgias, showing how seemingly disparate themes are woven together.
Plato's Anti-hedonism and the Protagoras
Author: J. Clerk Shaw
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107046653
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
"In this book, Clerk Shaw removes this apparent tension by arguing that the Protagoras as a whole actually reflects Plato's anti-hedonism"--
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107046653
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
"In this book, Clerk Shaw removes this apparent tension by arguing that the Protagoras as a whole actually reflects Plato's anti-hedonism"--
Gorgias: Encomium of Helen
Author: Gorgias
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
The Encomium of Helen is thought to have been the demonstration piece of the Ancient Greek sophist, Presocratic philosopher and rhetorician, Gorgias. In this edition Malcolm MacDowell provides a useful introduction, the Greek text, his own English translation, and commentary.
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
The Encomium of Helen is thought to have been the demonstration piece of the Ancient Greek sophist, Presocratic philosopher and rhetorician, Gorgias. In this edition Malcolm MacDowell provides a useful introduction, the Greek text, his own English translation, and commentary.
Seeming & Being in Plato’s Rhetorical Theory
Author: Robin Reames
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022656715X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The widespread understanding of language in the West is that it represents the world. This view, however, has not always been commonplace. In fact, it is a theory of language conceived by Plato, culminating in The Sophist. In that dialogue Plato introduced the idea of statements as being either true or false, where the distinction between falsity and truth rests on a deeper discrepancy between appearance and reality, or seeming and being. Robin Reames’s Seeming & Being in Plato’s Rhetorical Theory marks a shift in Plato scholarship. Reames argues that an appropriate understanding of rhetorical theory in Plato’s dialogues illuminates how he developed the technical vocabulary needed to construct the very distinctions between seeming and being that separate true from false speech. By engaging with three key movements of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Plato scholarship—the rise and subsequent marginalization of “orality and literacy theory,” Heidegger’s controversial critique of Platonist metaphysics, and the influence of literary or dramatic readings of the dialogues—Reames demonstrates how the development of Plato’s rhetorical theory across several of his dialogues (Gorgias, Phaedrus, Protagoras, Theaetetus, Cratylus, Republic, and Sophist) has been both neglected and misunderstood.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022656715X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The widespread understanding of language in the West is that it represents the world. This view, however, has not always been commonplace. In fact, it is a theory of language conceived by Plato, culminating in The Sophist. In that dialogue Plato introduced the idea of statements as being either true or false, where the distinction between falsity and truth rests on a deeper discrepancy between appearance and reality, or seeming and being. Robin Reames’s Seeming & Being in Plato’s Rhetorical Theory marks a shift in Plato scholarship. Reames argues that an appropriate understanding of rhetorical theory in Plato’s dialogues illuminates how he developed the technical vocabulary needed to construct the very distinctions between seeming and being that separate true from false speech. By engaging with three key movements of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Plato scholarship—the rise and subsequent marginalization of “orality and literacy theory,” Heidegger’s controversial critique of Platonist metaphysics, and the influence of literary or dramatic readings of the dialogues—Reames demonstrates how the development of Plato’s rhetorical theory across several of his dialogues (Gorgias, Phaedrus, Protagoras, Theaetetus, Cratylus, Republic, and Sophist) has been both neglected and misunderstood.
A Companion to Greek Rhetoric
Author: Ian Worthington
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 144433414X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 633
Book Description
This complete guide to ancient Greek rhetoric is exceptional both in its chronological range and the breadth of topics it covers. Traces the rise of rhetoric and its uses from Homer to Byzantium Covers wider-ranging topics such as rhetoric's relationship to knowledge, ethics, religion, law, and emotion Incorporates new material giving us fresh insights into how the Greeks saw and used rhetoric Discusses the idea of rhetoric and examines the status of rhetoric studies, present and future All quotations from ancient sources are translated into English
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 144433414X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 633
Book Description
This complete guide to ancient Greek rhetoric is exceptional both in its chronological range and the breadth of topics it covers. Traces the rise of rhetoric and its uses from Homer to Byzantium Covers wider-ranging topics such as rhetoric's relationship to knowledge, ethics, religion, law, and emotion Incorporates new material giving us fresh insights into how the Greeks saw and used rhetoric Discusses the idea of rhetoric and examines the status of rhetoric studies, present and future All quotations from ancient sources are translated into English