1st Edition
The Birth of Rhetoric Gorgias, Plato and their Successors
By Robert Wardy
Copyright 1996
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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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? This is the rhetoric of ideological manipulation and political seduction. Rhetoric is for some a distinctive mode of communication; for others, whenever someone speaks, rhetoric is present. This book is devoted to helping readers... Read more
INTRODUCTION 1 MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING: GORGIAS’ ON WHAT IS NOT 2 IN PRAISE OF FALLEN WOMEN: GORGIAS’ ENCOMIUM OF HELEN 3 IN DEFENCE OF REASON: PLATO’S GORGIAS 4 AFTERLIVES 5 ARISTOTLE’S RHETORIC: MIGHTY IS THE TRUTH AND IT SHALL PREVAIL? EPILOGUE: DOES PHILOSOPHY HAVE A GENDER?
Biography
Robert Wardy
`Wardy gives Gorgias a new hearing. The book addresses and is accessible to, anyone interested in philosophy, literature, and the history of either.' - The Times Higher Education Supplement
'Wardy's book, descended from an interdisciplinary course on rhetoric, represents a sophisticated version of the now familiar challenge to simplistic assumptions about the godlike superiority of philosophical over other forms of discourse.' - Christopher Rowe, Phronesis
