Seeming & being in Plato's rhetorical theory / Robin Reames.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reames, Robin (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Plato.
Rhetoric > Philosophy.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Sophists (Greek philosophy)
Physical Description:xiv, 229 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Literacy, dramatic form, metaphysics: rereading Plato's rhetoric
  • The "cosmetics" of sophistry: seeming and being in the Gorgias
  • The oral poet and the literate sophist: divine madness and rhetorical inoculation in the Phaedrus
  • Heraclitean opposition and Parmenidean contradiction: pre-Socratic ontology and Protagorean sophistry in the Cratylus, the Theaetetus, and the Euthydemus
  • Sophistry without measure, dialectic without rhetoric: the interpretive dispute in the Protagoras
  • The rhetoric of mimêsis: sophistic imitation and seeming in the Republic
  • Imitators of truth: the rhetorical theories of onoma and rhêma in the Sophist and the Cratylus
  • Epilogue: The past and future of Plato's rhetorical theory.