Plato's dream of sophistry / Richard Marback.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Studies in rhetoric/communication.
Main Author: Marback, Richard
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, [1999], ©1999.
Series:Studies in rhetoric/communication.
Subjects:
Plato > Influence.
Sophists (Greek philosophy)
Plato.
Sophists.
Philosophy > History.
Rhethoric.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Rhetoric > History.
Physical Description:vi, 163 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Philostratus and Eunapius on philosopher-sophists
  • Desire for sophistry
  • Proclus on the magic of rhetoric
  • Context for redefining pagan sophistry
  • Augustine's Christian rhetoric
  • Sophistry and civic humanism
  • Ficino's hermetic Plato
  • The sophistry of love
  • Challenges to Diotimean sophistry
  • The end of ancient wisdom
  • Bacon's allegorical ambivalences
  • Philosopher-kings in the seventeenth century
  • Parker's Baconian Plato
  • Rejecting the mysteries of Plato's allegories
  • A new Plato for a new age
  • Brucker's revision of Plato
  • A critique of sophistic (and Platonic) reason
  • Arguing and obeying
  • Universal history with a cosmopolitan intent
  • Hegel on sophistry.