Rereading the Sophists - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rereading the Sophists write by Susan C. Jarratt. This book was released on 1998. Rereading the Sophists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In "rereading" the sophists of fifth-century Greece, Susan C. Jarratt reinterprets classical rhetoric, with implications for current theory in rhetoric and composition. -- Provided by publisher
Rereading Ancient Philosophy
Rereading Ancient Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rereading Ancient Philosophy write by Verity Harte. This book was released on 2017-12-28. Rereading Ancient Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Revisits central texts and themes in ancient philosophy in order to throw fresh light on some familiar passages and debates.
The Sophists
The Sophists - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sophists write by . This book was released on 2013-10-10. The Sophists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Sophists were bold, exciting innovators with new ideas about Athenian society. The first to arrive, in about 444 BC, was Protagoras. During the last half of the fifth century BC he was followed by a succession of 'new age' itinerant instructors who were skilled in teaching. Mainly they taught the young ambitious men of Athens, instilling in them the skills they sought in order to become successful, that is, rich and influential. The Athenians flocked to hear them and enrol in their courses. The Sophists dared to charge high fees for their instruction and their students willingly paid.The Sophists were versatile and multi-talented. It seems that there was nothing one or other of them could not teach, but perhaps their greatest legacy to western society was their development of language, which, naturally, also benefited them in their work.Plato criticised the Sophists for promoting dangerous ideas which threatened the traditional structure of society. They taught their students how to argue convincingly and to turn the weaker argument into a winning argument against the stronger. Plato was markedly vitriolic in his criticism of the Sophists. Perhaps he was justified.Were the Sophists clever, rather than wise? Where does the truth lie? This book, with its lively, comprehensive treatment of the subject by twenty leading scholars in the field, will help the reader to decide.
Seeming & Being in Plato’s Rhetorical Theory
Seeming & Being in Plato’s Rhetorical Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Seeming & Being in Plato’s Rhetorical Theory write by Robin Reames. This book was released on 2018-07-23. Seeming & Being in Plato’s Rhetorical Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The widespread understanding of language in the West is that it represents the world. This view, however, has not always been commonplace. In fact, it is a theory of language conceived by Plato, culminating in The Sophist. In that dialogue Plato introduced the idea of statements as being either true or false, where the distinction between falsity and truth rests on a deeper discrepancy between appearance and reality, or seeming and being. Robin Reames’s Seeming & Being in Plato’s Rhetorical Theory marks a shift in Plato scholarship. Reames argues that an appropriate understanding of rhetorical theory in Plato’s dialogues illuminates how he developed the technical vocabulary needed to construct the very distinctions between seeming and being that separate true from false speech. By engaging with three key movements of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Plato scholarship—the rise and subsequent marginalization of “orality and literacy theory,” Heidegger’s controversial critique of Platonist metaphysics, and the influence of literary or dramatic readings of the dialogues—Reames demonstrates how the development of Plato’s rhetorical theory across several of his dialogues (Gorgias, Phaedrus, Protagoras, Theaetetus, Cratylus, Republic, and Sophist) has been both neglected and misunderstood.
Reception Histories
Reception Histories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reception Histories write by Steven Mailloux. This book was released on 2018-09-05. Reception Histories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In his earlier Rhetorical Power, Steven Mailloux presented an innovative and challenging strategy for combining critical theory and cultural studies. That book has stimulated wide-ranging discussion and debate among diverse audiences—students and specialists in American studies, speech communications, rhetoric/composition, law, education, biblical studies, and especially literary theory and cultural criticism. Reception Histories marks a further development of Mailloux's influential critical project, as he demonstrates how rhetorical hermeneutics uses rhetoric to practice theory by doing history. Reception Histories works out in detail what rhetorical hermeneutics means in terms of poststructuralist theory (Part One), nineteenth-century U.S. cultural studies (Part Two), and the contemporary history of curricular reform within the so-called Culture Wars (Part Three). Mailloux situates, defends, and elaborates the theory he first proposed in Rhetorical Power, and he exemplifies it with a new series of provocative reception histories. He also both critiques and reconceptualizes the version of reader response criticism he developed in his first book, Interpretive Conventions. Throughout Reception Histories, Mailloux demonstrates his distinctive blend of neopragmatism and cultural rhetoric study. By tracing the rhetorical paths of thought, this book offers a new way to read the current volatile debates over higher education and contributes its own original proposals for shaping the future of the humanities.
