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Named Person: | Plato.; Plato. |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Robin Reames |
ISBN: | 9780226567013 022656701X |
OCLC Number: | 1022775522 |
Description: | xiv, 229 pages ; 24 cm |
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. |
Other Titles: | Seeming and being in Plato's rhetorical theory |
Responsibility: | Robin Reames. |
Abstract:
An analysis of Plato and the relationship he posits among language, truth, and the world.
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