Gorgias and Rhetoric

Gorgias and Rhetoric
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Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Total Pages : 302
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ISBN-10 : 9781585104680
ISBN-13 : 158510468X
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Synopsis Gorgias and Rhetoric by : Plato

By pairing translations of Gorgias and Rhetoric, along with an outstanding introductory essay, Joe Sachs demonstrates Aristotles response to Plato. If in the Gorgias Plato probes the question of what is problematic in rhetoric, in Rhetoric, Aristotle continues the thread by looking at what makes rhetoric useful. By juxtaposing the two texts, an interesting "conversation" is illuminated—one which students of philosophy and rhetoric will find key in their analytical pursuits. Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Aristotle and Plato’s immediate audience.

The Birth of Rhetoric

The Birth of Rhetoric
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 211
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ISBN-10 : 9781134757305
ISBN-13 : 1134757301
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis The Birth of Rhetoric by : Robert Wardy

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.

The Unity of Plato's 'Gorgias'

The Unity of Plato's 'Gorgias'
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : 052185847X
ISBN-13 : 9780521858472
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Synopsis The Unity of Plato's 'Gorgias' by : Devin Stauffer

This book demonstrates the complex unity of Plato's Gorgias, showing how seemingly disparate themes are woven together.

Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric

Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric
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Publisher : SIU Press
Total Pages : 188
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ISBN-10 : 0809323974
ISBN-13 : 9780809323975
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric by : Bruce McComiskey

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.

Gorgias: Encomium of Helen

Gorgias: Encomium of Helen
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Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Total Pages : 56
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015018836760
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Synopsis Gorgias: Encomium of Helen by : Gorgias

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.

Plato on the Value of Philosophy

Plato on the Value of Philosophy
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 233
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ISBN-10 : 9781107181984
ISBN-13 : 1107181984
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Synopsis Plato on the Value of Philosophy by : Tushar Irani

This book explores Plato's views on what an 'art of argument' should look like, investigating the relationship between psychology and rhetoric.

Gorgias, Sophist and Artist

Gorgias, Sophist and Artist
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Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 1570034249
ISBN-13 : 9781570034244
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis Gorgias, Sophist and Artist by : Scott Porter Consigny

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

Logos without Rhetoric

Logos without Rhetoric
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Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Total Pages : 219
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ISBN-10 : 9781611177695
ISBN-13 : 1611177693
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Logos without Rhetoric by : Robin Reames

A germinal examination of rhetoric's beginnings through pre-fourth-century Greek texts How did rhetoric begin and what was it before it was called "rhetoric"? Must art have a name to be considered art? What is the difference between eloquence and rhetoric? And what were the differences, if any, among poets, philosophers, sophists, and rhetoricians before Plato emphasized—or perhaps invented—their differences? In Logos without Rhetoric: The Arts of Language before Plato, Robin Reames attempts to intervene in these and other questions by examining the status of rhetorical theory in texts that predate Plato's coining of the term rhetoric (c. 380 B.C.E.). From Homer and Hesiod to Parmenides and Heraclitus to Gorgias, Theodorus, and Isocrates, the case studies contained here examine the status of the discipline of rhetoric prior to and therefore in the absence of the influence of Plato and Aristotle's full-fledged development of rhetorical theory in the fourth century B.C.E. The essays in this volume make a case for a porous boundary between theory and practice and promote skepticism about anachronistic distinctions between myth and reason and between philosophy and rhetoric in the historiography of rhetoric's beginning. The result is an enlarged understanding of the rhetorical content of pre-fourth-century Greek texts. Edward Schiappa, head of Comparative Media Studies/Writing and the John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, provides an afterword.

Plato

Plato
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Publisher : Focus
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105131655917
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Synopsis Plato by : Plato

This is an English translation of Plato's dialogue of Socrates seeking the true definition of rhetoric, with an attempt to show the flaws of the sophistic orators. Includes speeches from Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian Wars that reflect Plato's themes. Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Plato's immediate audience.

Plato on the Rhetoric of Philosophers and Sophists

Plato on the Rhetoric of Philosophers and Sophists
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Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : 0511366701
ISBN-13 : 9780511366703
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Plato on the Rhetoric of Philosophers and Sophists by : Marina McCoy

Marina McCoy explores Plato's treatment of the rhetoric of philosophers and sophists.