Gorgias and the new sophistic rhetoric /
Bruce McComiskey.
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2002.
- 156 p. ; 24 cm.
- Rhetorical philosophy and theory .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-149) and index.
Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1 Part One: Historical Interpretation 1. Disassembling Plato's Critique of Rhetoric in the Gorgias (447a-466a) 17 2. Gorgias and the Art of Rhetoric 32 Part Two: Neosophistic Appropriation 3. Neosophistic Rhetorical Theory 55 4. Postmodern Sophistics 77 5. The Global Village, Multiculturalism, and the Functions of Sophistic Rhetoric 97 Appendix: A Selected Bibliography on Sophistic Rhetoric and Philosophy 121.