Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric

by Bruce McComiskey

Book Overview

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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809331365
• ISBN13: 9780809331369
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"